From the upcoming Beef Terminal album "Canadian Patent" out April 2.

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The Smoke and Gift

Named after a meat processing facility in the west end of Toronto, Canada, MD Matheson has been releasing albums under the Beef Terminal name since 2000.  The latest, "Canadian Patent" on Moodgadget Records is the first since 2011's "Humidex" release.  

About "Lifter":
"I kind of pictured this as a bit of a letter to Toronto...I wrote it as some well known issues were occurring in the city I've lived in most of my life.  The world was looking at my city but not really for the right reasons.  Since the urban experience has always been part of the music I make, I wanted to write something a bit positive sounding, maybe uplifting, and try to make something that could make people forget all the negative stuff going on...like a ballad for a broken city"

About "Canadian Patent":
I wasn’t sure if I was going to bother to make another Beef Terminal album.  After some bad experiences involving "Humidex" with labels, I contemplated just packing it in and making sounds on my own with no real intention to release it out in the world.  I felt like I was just throwing more music on a massive pile of music that everyone else was making and just getting ignored, so why bother?  But the point of this project has never been recognition or money, it has been about true fans of the music, who seem to somehow find it and get in touch, telling me how much it has meant to them.  Alex Chilton said:
"Somewhere a long the line I figured out that if you only press up a hundred copies of a record, then eventually it will find it’s way to the hundred people in the world who want it most."
This has been my experience, and that's the reason why I'm going to keep going and keep releasing music, no matter who is there to hear it.  I've had times when what I was doing was popular and got some radio play, and times when I was completely ignored.  But none of that matters.  
I recorded the album starting in April of 2013 in Toronto and finished it up in Florida in early 2014.  The name "Canadian Patent" comes from an old scaffolding company in Toronto, the name was painted on the side of a building (probably torn down now for condos) and I thought it might be a cool name for an album.  It sounds kind of mysterious and weird to me, and as a proud Canadian I thought it might be cool to reference my country in the album name as well.

-MD Matheson

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