Welcome to the weird and creative world of Matt C. White. Okay, me using the word weird might sound a bit rude, but I don’t mean it to be. But this is not the place if you are looking for conventional structures and fashionable sound, obvious hooks, and chart “bangers” (as I believe the kids call them).
However, if you are looking for psychedelic sounds driven by an alt-rock power, off-beat grooves pulled together into accessible low-slung riffs, a slow boogie through brooding soundscapes and trippy musical motifs, then Matt is your man. Imagine if the Grateful Dead were starting today…well, that! Sort of. Odd enough to be new and exciting, reverential enough that you know that this is someone who knows where they sit on rock’s family tree.
And anyway, words like odd and weird are good words. In my world, they imply free thought and musical experimentation; they imply sonic adventure and creative exploration; they put a label on an artist that marks them out as being unhindered by fad or fashion; they tell us that here is someone unswayed by the zeitgeist, whichever way it might be blowing that month, an artist relentlessly pursuing their own singular vision, whether it is what the people want or not. The people never know what they want, so you might as well give them what they need, even if they didn’t realize they needed it. And if this is the sort of thing that you need in your life, you are my sort of people.
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