Getting Thin

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Yrs Truly

Palmerston Porch

A Modern Girl

Canada’s Matthew Parker (performing as Piano Rach – pronounced “piano rock”) has been making, recording and performing music since the mid-90s. The now-Hackney-based multi-instrumentalist recorded and toured as Sunny Day Sets Fire’s drummer (we’ve not heard of them either) before a decade plagued in scandal, public meltdown and bankruptcy. 

Emerging from obscurity with debts to pay, Parker now desperately performs solo by building loops of synths, guitars and drums – channelling the sweeping filters of Stereolab, the slow-build-to-crescendo of post-rock and the danceability of early New Order.

Having recorded at home (“quietly, with my kids sleeping beneath me”) the aptly named “Chaperone” EP provides audiences at small to moderate-sized gigs something to listen to, in order to know whether they think he’s any good.