Look out for Matt's latest release with Family Records , set to come out in Spring 2008...
And check out a chunklet from my recent interview with BEYOND RACE magazine:
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and "Stacy J" live at the Beyond Race Magazine Fall launch party at Rockwood Music Hall:
Matt's most recent album, All Us Heathens, is catching mad praise:
MY MUSICAL CRUSH said:
Matt Singer's lyrics are the cat's pajamas. meow don't let his wholesome, boy-next-door façade fool you. once he picks up his guitar and opens his mouth, no scandalous or political figure is safe, including the white house idiot or the carnal abuses of the catholic church.
delivered like a rapping storyteller, his sardonic, side-spilting, politically-infused lyrics - thinly veiled in catchy melodic, folksy hooks - make you ask, did he really just say that?, usually followed by an uncontrollable, belly-aching laugh. plus, he can whistle like a piping hot tea kettle. how coolio is that?
URBAN FOLK Magazine said:
Matt Singer is all about words. All Us Heathens, his most fully realized recording to date, hops between rock and hip-hop, bluegrass and jazz, while somehow still holding its ground as a solid folk record. His songs change topic like most people breathe, jumping from the awkwardness of childhood to love, to Jesus, to Jews, to welfare reform, to the hand of judgment to trick-or-treating on Halloween, and back to being the awkward fat kid. .... All Us Heathens finds Matt Singer dressed in a more rustic outfit. Think Bringin It All Back meets Fear of a Black Planet meets A Prairie Home Companion. Yes, this is one complex package. The lyrics jump, the genres drift, and All Us Heathens is highly recommended.
POP HEADWOUND said:
Having seen him perform twice I can safely say his live shows thrive in such intimate settings, as they revel in audience participation, whether he makes them laugh out loud to his often quirky lyrics, whistle along with the tune as he sings over them, or clap along to provide a little rhythm. Full POP Headwound piece here
Of his previous release, Words of Mass Destruction....
THE VILLAGE BROADSHEET said: Singers melodic voice is so laid-back and sweet that it perfectly counterpoints (in a funny way) the paranoid zeal of the Bush administration... Singer writes protest songs that are serious without taking themselves too seriously. And he goes a long way to showing us just who, exactly, is Rupert Murdochs bitch.
RUSSELL'S REVIEWS (UK) said: Lucid and intelligent... his confidence is such that he addresses the issues across the musical genres. If there's one good thing to come out of the Bush administration it's that it inspires singers like Matt to write songs like these.
