"somewhere in my heart / underneath my skull / I got hard feelings / I gotta let go..."
The hard self deprecating punk fury of "Hard Feelings", by Detroit based The Matthew Teardrop Orchestra, is the kind of garage rock that feels so gloriously magnetic especially LIVE in a small sweaty venue when a tightly packed audience becomes one. One such venue was a small cinder block building in Pomona, California, a garage rock / punk venue called VLHS (Vince Lombardi High School) run by Marty Ploy and I saw a lot of bands there, between 2010 and 2012, one being Matthew Teardrops other incarnation when he lived in Cali, named Manhattan Murder Mystery.
"Hard Feelings" possesses that grinding, mosh heavy garage rock sound that feels seeded by busker punk, late 70's / 80's classic and proto punk, indie rock and even indie folk distilled in to a fun, massive, unrelenting drill of a sound appropriately cut to the quick and blistering with Matthew's howling vox that can feel derisive but emotionally embracing at the same time. Hard to think of other bands as direct comparisons but I am feeling a kind of amalgam of Jeff Rosenstock, Happy Hollows, Bass Drum of Death and Tom Waits (go with me on this, ha).
The accompanying Official Video was filmed by Neil Patterson. The song was produced by Jim Diamond who produced the first two White Stripes albums. "Hard Feelings" exists on the band's debut eponymous EP "The Matthew Teardrop Orchestra" up on their bandcamp now.
LINER NOTES:
[Matthew Teardrop is a musician playing out of Detroit. As the frontman for Manhattan Murder Mystery, he led the band as singer, guitarist, and harmonica player for over a decade from their homebase in Los Angeles, California.
They toured their darkly comic and optimistically tragic songs through such legendary venues as CBGBs, Gilman, The Troubadour, and more, and their last album was recorded at Electrical Audio in Chicago by the late Steve Albini.
Matthew Teardrop's new ensemble of musical veterans includes Michigan mainstay Lumen Klein on drums and bassist Shaun Hunter of the Bay Area band The Acharis. The Matthew Teardrop Orchestra's new record was produced by Dirtbombs bassist Jim Diamond, whose previous work includes the first two White Stripes albums.
In this new collaboration, Teardrop continues his writing and performing of anthemic and heartfelt rock n’ roll ballads with working class roots in both folk music and punk.]
They toured their darkly comic and optimistically tragic songs through such legendary venues as CBGBs, Gilman, The Troubadour, and more, and their last album was recorded at Electrical Audio in Chicago by the late Steve Albini.
Matthew Teardrop's new ensemble of musical veterans includes Michigan mainstay Lumen Klein on drums and bassist Shaun Hunter of the Bay Area band The Acharis. The Matthew Teardrop Orchestra's new record was produced by Dirtbombs bassist Jim Diamond, whose previous work includes the first two White Stripes albums.
In this new collaboration, Teardrop continues his writing and performing of anthemic and heartfelt rock n’ roll ballads with working class roots in both folk music and punk.]
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://linktr.ee/manhattanmurdermystery
https://linktr.ee/matthewteardrop
https://www.instagram.com/matthewteardrop/
https://www.facebook.com/matthew.teardrop
Matthew Teardrop is a musician playing out of Detroit. As the frontman for Manhattan Murder Mystery, he led the band as singer, guitarist, and harmonica player for over a decade from their homebase in Los Angeles, California. They toured their darkly comic and optimistically tragic songs through such legendary venues as CBGBs, Gilman, The Troubadour, and more, and their last album was recorded at Electrical Audio in Chicago by the late Steve Albini. Matthew Teardrop's new ensemble of musical veterans includes Michigan mainstay Lumen Klein on drums and bassist Shaun Hunter of the Bay Area band The Acharis. The Matthew Teardrop Orchestra's new record was produced by Dirtbombs bassist Jim Diamond, whose previous work includes the first two White Stripes albums. In this new collaboration, Teardrop continues his writing and performing of anthemic and heartfelt rock n’ roll ballads with working class roots in both folk music and punk.
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