Matthew Lyon
I’ll have more to say later, but my album is out - bandcamp and streaming; Pay what you want on Bandcamp
> Lyon has a knack for finding and arranging sounds others would not consider, and somehow forcing them together with his expert songcraft in a manner you're likely to find consistently rewarding.
Matthew Lyon
This is an intensely personal body of work; not just one of my “five albums to know me” but also something which helped me know myself
The first main track, “Cast in Illusion” is what convinced me to finally look into the idea that perhaps I’ve been dealing with depression my entire life. For me, it’s about a childhood struggling with the bleakness of a limbic system that makes happiness seem alien
Matthew Lyon
“Lessons in Forgetting” is the first track I completed, about a year ago, and I distinctly remember finishing it and feeling unreserved peace for the first time in my life
To me it’s about the struggle of facing and succumbing to systemic hostility from a culture that demands conformity
> It's a deliberately cultivated sense of unease that immediately gets to work setting the record apart simple bedroom electronica.
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