Matthew and the Arrogant Sea

Matthew and The Arrogant Sea Is an Improvisational act from Denton Texas who builds imagination rafts in their spare time and enjoys a good balloon every now and then. We dream of clouds instead of girls, hearts instead of pearls,butterflies instead of snakes,daisies instead of death. but most of all we dream of floating far far away...
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Matthew and the Arrogant Sea
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Anyone who's ever listened to Matthew and the Arrogant Sea would expect to be blown into a fantastic explosion of a world of imagination where anything and everything becomes a possibility-Exp/Am Review-
The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy. - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton.
The band's sound seems to fall somewhere between Nick Drake and older Animal Collective, drawing from strange, dramatic 70's folk acts such as Fairport Convention and Pearls Before Swine (whether intentionally or not) and dressing those influences up with the sounds of a variety of contemporary indie touchstones ranging from Espers to Fruit Bats to Devendra Banhart to the experimental tribal avant folk of Sunburned Hand of the Man. The result is a solid base of acoustic pop lying beneath layers of swirling noise, reverb and other textures that give much of their music a sense of loneliness, distance and detachment. Songs like "The Irony of Anigav..." buzz with tin can percussion, bits of white noise and a hypnotic use of repetition, while "Pancakes on Mars" treads on more traditional folk turf but remains interesting due to it's recording, which creates an artificial acoustic space reminiscent of hearing an old country song in a car on a long dark highway. And while the band hasn't exactly invented the particular styles they are working within, their take is unique and quickly rewarding, displaying a locally uncommon willingness to create experimental pop that is both experimental and, well, poppy.-weshotjr
" Floating through a dream, you stop at the local concession stand. A worn down Ovid sporting a paper hat offers you a burnt turkey dog. As you consider scarfing it down, you notice the muzak coming through the softspeaker. You follow the wires around the shack and they lead to your feet. You shake them as if they were on fire, but the cords don't disconnect, the music only pulses louder. Then you realize you don't want the music to stop at all. Then you wake up, and you've left A MARA MÆRE MARTROOT on your stereo all night as you passed out. You hug its unique handmade package and go back to sleep, after grabbing a veggie dog out of the micro. "
- Pop Monster Records
" Matthew has a voice that can cause one to stop and pause and sit back in sheer awe of its utter beauty. His exploratory range rates equivalent (and sounds a lot like) the heavily exploratory and drug-laden years of Brian Wilson " - Reactor Media
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