The first 4 tracks are from the demo we recorded with Carl Bown (Laruso) when he was just starting out and before his work with Colin Richardson and Fightstar.  I remember recording with a sweet SM7B and being so stoked with the production, which I still think is pretty sweet. Lyrically these tracks cover religion, porn, death and Countdown.

The last three tracks are home-recorded demos from the sci-fi concept album EB never made.  We demoed the entire 10 track record but these are the best demos I have at the moment but I'm trying to get the rest of the files to play.  I regret that we didn't go back to Carl and record this album properly.

03 Eulogy

04 Confidence in Consonants

Really proud of this.

Guitars: PRS SE MM Baritone w/ EMG 57/66
Bass: Ibanez SR805 w/EMGs
Amps: Fractal AxeFx Standard
Drums: Toontrack EzDrummer2 Vintage kit
Mic: Electro-Voice Condenser

Crooked Teeth

I've been working on a couple of faster tunes recently so this is a rough arrangement that will be fleshed out and tweaked once vocals are added.  This is also the first in my new room so, still getting used to the new space.

Guitars PRS SE Mushok Baritone in Drop G# with an EMG 81 in the bridge with a Fractal AxeFx Standard.
Bass is an Ibanez SR805 with EMGs through the AxeFx. 
Drums are EZ Drummer 2 with the Metal! pack

Cranes And Graves WIP

This will get vocals and a proper title eventually but I wanted to share this in it's current form as it's something different for me.


August Instrumental

This track was inspired by Hammock's Mysterium record and the Olafur Arnalds' Broadchurch soundtrack.

It was produced in Presonus Studio One using Spitifire and Soundiron sample libraries. Plugins were a mix of Waves,UAD, Slate and Fabfilter.

Cover image by Maksim Romashkin, found on Pexels.com

Waves

Produced in Studio One 5 using Spitfire Audio, Native Instruments, Toontrack, an EBow and lots of guitar pedals.

Cover image by Zachary DeBottis, found on Pexels.com

Planning Our Escape

Produced in Studio One 5 with VSTs from Native Instruments, Heavyocity, Slate and Arturia.

Cover image by Burst, found on Pexels.com

A City In The Fog

A quick sketch I wrote in memory of a friend who passed away recently.

Using Nrthrn's new EP-1 piano with some Spitfire CDT and OA Toolkit plus my pedalboard and an Ebow.

Photo by Sami Anas from Pexels

For Luke

Hi, my name is Matt and I currently live in Astoria, New York but I'm originally from the north of England, UK. 


Matt Bolton