Al Matcott / Fake The Days Away LP Blue & White Vinyl

Al Matcott 'Fake The Days Away' LP Blue & White Vinyl

Al Matcott's debut album, Summer’s Coming, was a full-throated howl against global warming and the forces behind it. Featuring caterwauling guitars, driving rhythms, and incisive lyricism, it earned him a Double J feature album.

Now the Naarm/Melbourne artist is stoked to announce that his follow-up album, Fake The Days Away, will be released on Cheersquad Records & Tapes on October 17.

Fake The Days Away often explores how the electronic hallucinations of the internet have pushed reality and nature aside and are now, foot-to-the-floor, driving us into a death spiral of lies, paranoia, hate, and—above all—utter, dogshit stupidity.

The album touches on themes of loneliness and isolation, toxic masculinity, Ben Roberts-Smith, liars and fake people, and the importance of friendship. Strikingly, the album is counterbalanced by some of Matcott’s most personal writing. There’s even a love song.

Sonically, it dials down the distortion of Summer’s Coming, with a lush, varied, and more naturalistic sonic palette. What remains is his penchant for earworm melodies, the rich timbre of his vocals, and his engrossing narratives. Folk and country meet garage and psychedelic rock as Matcott turns his earworm melodies and memorable one-liners to the hyperreal wasteland of our digital lives.

Tracklist:

All Night
Rebel Without A Clue
I Decide
Saint Haven
Wouldn’t Expect To See You Here
There Is Much Wrong I Have Done
If Only
One By One
When The War Is Over
The Score
Song For A Ghost