Interesting show at new Bushwick venue Delinquency on Saturday 08.11 with Chappo and Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt (which we covered here several times already) and It is rain in my face – a Brooklyn based project we never wrote about. This is a one man group that seems to be of two minds: On the one hand, songwriter/programmer Mat Jones’ material is molded from the tradition of Bread and Neil Young, but this AM rock sound is filtered through layers of electronic tinkering, vocal effects, and drum machines gone crazy. Like if James Blake got together with Thom Yorke and moved to Brooklyn. The project’s first EP is a lush journey of this folk-tronica. Songs like ‘Small Prayer’ and ‘Too Blue’ work as quiet meditations that unexpectedly erupt in breakbeats every so often, but touch back down to reveal the gentle humanity behind each of these carefully crafted numbers. Mat has new material which will see the light of a day in a debut full length scheduled for the fall – see preview track streaming below.. – Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)
