Nine Songs on BandCamp

I’ll be the first to admit it – I suck at teaser posts.

I was going to post the previous announcement, then the album cover the next day, and all that.

My problem is a simple one: I get so freaking excited about this thing, I can’t hold back.

What you’ll be listening to is the product of the last nine years. I’ve written a ton, and recorded a large handful of it. I used to think that this stuff was unusably flawed. The songs that I still like are the ones with mistakes in my face.

The same is true of music I listen to. The perfectly produced and performed stuff, like the Postal Service, always fades out over time in favor of things like Pavement’s Slanted and Enchanted or Guided By Voices’ Bee Thousand, that revel in error and the musicianship of actual humans.

In short, this record is a document testifying to the fact that I write what I’m interested in hearing. I hope you’ll be interested in it, too.

Nine Songs will be released tomorrow, but the whole thing’s up and ready for streaming at BandCamp right now. Tomorrow, you can download or buy.

Check it out; tell me what you think:

Posted: July 26th, 2010 | Author: Matthew | Filed under: Music, Work, Writing | No Comments »

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