Matt McFarren is an unsigned, American singer-songwriter, born March 19th, 1984 in Canton, Ohio. His influences range everywhere from Ryan Adams to Led Zeppelin. 

*Please note that the following songs on this page currently are all home recorded Demo's and are unmixed.

Hello, my name is Katie. I’m 17 from Manchester

My favourite bands include The Maccabees, The Last Shadow Puppets, Grimes, Swim Deep, Joy Division, Palma Violets, Sigur Ros, Arctic Monkeys and The Smiths.

Schroomkoning is het nieuwe Nederlandstalige singer/songwriter project van Udo Pesch. Daarmee is Schroomkoning het logische vervolg op Vanity & Jokes (soundcloud.com/up71), maar in dan met liedjes in de moedertaal, die zo mogelijk nog introverter zijn.

'A talented singer-songwriter' - The New Yorker

I like computers. They give you the opportunity to do just as if you were a whole band. Indeed Vanity & Jokes is a one-man band behind his desk. All solipsist ideas transformed into one's and zero's, and trying to make them sound like a real band (still lo-fi, but I'm working on it). Authentic & acoustic, but all digital.
Internet is also great, it allows you to act like a manager and a record company. Yes, the music is published. It's for everyone to listen to, to enjoy. The artificiality of the digital universe, actually provides the chance to make dreams seem more real.

This is what Vanity & Jokes is about. Both fake and real, insignificant and grotesque, serious and ridiculous.
Anyway, wherever you might be, my unseen audience, thanks for listening!

Dodgy covers and an abundance of siq harmonies/unnecessary reverb. 

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