"others are just passing through / others stay right beside you / so long as nothing you can do..."
The ebullient pop-rock psychedelic sunshine of "Others", by Detroit, Michigan's Matthew Smith Group , feels like vintage found footage from a Cathode Ray TV, the musical act on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. I mean there is something so special happening here, a paisley purity, a kind of lovely crush of 60's baroque / broad pop and 80's - 90's indie rock / twee / post punk complete with jangly guitars, propulsive orchestrations of tom tom beats, active happy bass, cool horns and vocal harmonies. Think of an amalgam of The Turtles, The Beach Boys, The Cure, Guided by Voices, Cocteau Twins (or thereabouts) sort of filtered through a version of a Phil Spector-esque wall of sound.
I love the sound that has been crafted here. Call backs to times before while feeling a bit off kilter too in an art punk sort of way but most of all, the all encompassing pop rock embrace feels so evocatively gorgeous.
LINER NOTES: (excerpted / bracketed):
[Matthew Smith Group is the forthcoming album by the ex-Outrageous Cherry songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist. His previous band's explorations of psychedelia, folk rock, art rock, and bubblegum music span more than 12 albums over nearly three decades. . Outrageous Cherry attracted an international cult following and was a fixture in Detroit's underground art and music culture, but the band ended in 2017 with the passing of lead guitarist Larry Ray.
Matthew's new group features Outrageous Cherry's rhythm section of Colleen Burke (We Ragazzi, Smog) on bass and Maria Nuccilli (Deadbeat Beat) on drums, lead guitarist Ava East (Shadow Show), avant-electronic improviser Chris Pottinger (Cotton Museum, Odd Clouds, Slither) on Moog synthesizer, and avant-jazz composer/instrumentalist Molly Jones on saxophone.]
-Robb Donker Curtius
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https://matthewsmithgroup.bandcamp.com/album/the-ruined-metropolis-broken-minds
https://www.instagram.com/talltexanrecords/?hl=en
https://talltexan.bigcartel.com/product/matthew-smith-group-matthew-smih-group-lp
Matthew Smith Group is the forthcoming album by the ex-Outrageous Cherry songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist. His previous band's explorations of psychedelia, folk rock, art rock, and bubblegum music span more than 12 albums over nearly three decades. . Outrageous Cherry attracted an international cult following and was a fixture in Detroit's underground art and music culture, but the band ended in 2017 with the passing of lead guitarist Larry Ray.
Matthew's new group features Outrageous Cherry's rhythm section of Colleen Burke (We Ragazzi, Smog) on bass and Maria Nuccilli (Deadbeat Beat) on drums, lead guitarist Ava East (Shadow Show), avant-electronic improviser Chris Pottinger (Cotton Museum, Odd Clouds, Slither) on Moog synthesizer, and avant-jazz composer/instrumentalist Molly Jones on saxophone.
Matthew Smith Group is the forthcoming album by the ex-Outrageous Cherry songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist. His previous band's explorations of psychedelia, folk rock, art rock, and bubblegum music span more than 12 albums over nearly three decades. . Outrageous Cherry attracted an international cult following and was a fixture in Detroit's underground art and music culture, but the band ended in 2017 with the passing of lead guitarist Larry Ray.
Matthew's new group features Outrageous Cherry's rhythm section of Colleen Burke (We Ragazzi, Smog) on bass and Maria Nuccilli (Deadbeat Beat) on drums, lead guitarist Ava East (Shadow Show), avant-electronic improviser Chris Pottinger (Cotton Museum, Odd Clouds, Slither) on Moog synthesizer, and avant-jazz composer/instrumentalist Molly Jones on saxophone.
Matthew Smith Group, psychedelic rock, indie rock, indie pop, post punk, folk, art rock, bubblegum, ex Outrageous Cherry songwriter. lead singer, guitarist, 5 piece collaborators, 6 piece band, single "Others",
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