Out now via Accidental Records.
Matthew Herbert has shared his new studio album entitled ‘Musca’. The latest installment in his series of domestic house albums, ‘Musca’ follows up on groundbreaking LP classics ‘Around The House’ (1998), and ‘Bodily Functions’ (2001) which were recently reissued on vinyl as part of the label’s ‘21st anniversary of the Accidental Record’s series of celebrations.
The 14-track album has been mixed by the artist himself and mastered by long-term collaborator and Grammy-winning engineer, Mandy Parnell (Björk, Brian Eno, and Aphex Twin).
‘Musca’ features eight singers, Verushka, Siân Roseanna, Allie Armstrong, Bianca Rose, Mel Uye-Parker, Daisy Godfrey, Y’akoto and Joy Morgan – all of whom Matthew has never worked with before or met face to face, and it also includes musicians Nick Ramm, Tom Herbert, Tom Skinner, Finn Peters, Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian and Leo Taylor, who, like the singers, all self-recorded and in isolation from each other.
‘The week last year, when I wrote most of these songs, seems like another era altogether. I have no idea how they will sound a year later now the context has changed so markedly. The optimist in me wants to leap forwards, vaccinated into the sunshine brandishing the NHS logo, but the realist in me is aghast at the wave of death unleashed upon this country by an incompetent and corrupt government. The record probably has ended up with both of those things, however – optimism that an alternative way of organizing ourselves is possible and anger and gloom that we’re not there yet.’ explains Matthew about his feelings.
Listen to Matthew Herbert’s ‘Musca’ below, and pick up your copy here.
