Nine Songs, the first collection from Memphis, Tenn.-based Matthew Trisler, is something of a purge.
Culled out of nearly 200 recordings, made over the course of ten years and nearly as many apartments, the record motions toward a wide range of genres and themes while retaining a common thread of urgency. Any one of the ideas contained in this record could either speed away at any moment or collapse under its own weight.
This record is documentation of that tension.
Echoing the low-fi experimentalism of Smog and early Beck, the orchestral folk of Sufjan Stevens, the expansive power-pop of Big Star or the New Pornographers, and the direct simplicity of Jens Lekman, the record retains – despite its decade of gestation – the dashed-together immediacy of Guided by Voices.
The coming year promises to be a busy one; Matthew plans on releasing a covers record in early Februrary, with a proper Nine Songs followup to come shortly thereafter. Keep up with or contact Matthew Trisler at his website, MatthewTrisler.com or his Twitter account.
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