MATTIEL — self-titled — Burger Records
scum stats: limited quantities on cloudy-clear semi-transparent vinyl, a shit ton on black
I don’t ask much of you folks. I offer up my half-baked opinions here, a link or two and hope it connects with your souls. If not…oh well.
But today, I really, 100% sincerely implore you to put the time and energy into listening to the entire debut album by Mattiel.
I cannot remember the last time I’d discovered a new record that made me feel this good. Personal and the Pizzas “Raw Pie"? Tyvek’s “Fast Metabolism”? This is HIGH praise.
The album is flawless. The Jonah Swilley/Randy Michael production team is deadly. Mattiel’s delivery, voice and lyrics are all incredibly inspired and unique and entirely hers. Her confidence is staggering. There is no comparison.
The front album cover photo…it looks badass and imbues an added layer of IMPORTANCE to everything. Someone standing on a horse confers impending greatness in my book. Like an army general ready to conquer an oncoming horde of marauders.
The “Cass Tech” song put me on the verge of tears, everything else crisp, fresh and inviting. I do not peddle in exaggerations. This is truth.
DO NOT SLEEP ON THIS RECORD!
If you at all consider yourself barely a collector, do yourself a favor, buy the colored vinyl now and thank me later.
I cannot say enough good things but it feels like I’ve already said too much. Please…on this one, just trust me. It is worth your time.
In the spirit of things, I bought an extra copy of the LP to giveaway right here. That’s what a nice guy I am. To win this beautiful LP, post a comment about the nicest thing someone has ever done for you. The best comment, as judged by me, will get this record mailed directly to their front door.
Every once in a while I’ll stand in line for lunch or have to go through the drive thru when I’m busy. Every so often when I each the cashier they’ll tell my food had been paid for by someone who was ahead of me. I’ve been a police officer for almost 17 years and I’ve seen the worst of the worst, but every once in a while someone casts a ray of sunshine through making my day. Cops today don’t seem to be the most popular people on this planet but it’s nice to know we’re still appreciated and I’m thankful for their kindness.
Every once in a while I’ll stand in line for lunch or have to go through the drive thru when I’m busy. Every so often when I each the cashier they’ll tell my food had been paid for by someone who was ahead of me. I’ve been a police officer for almost 17 years and I’ve seen the worst of the worst, but every once in a while someone casts a ray of sunshine through making my day. Cops today don’t seem to be the most popular people on this planet but it’s nice to know we’re still appreciated and I’m thankful for their kindness.
Every once in a while I’ll stand in line for lunch or have to go through the drive thru when I’m busy. Every so often when I each the cashier they’ll tell my food had been paid for by someone who was ahead of me. I’ve been a police officer for almost 17 years and I’ve seen the worst of the worst, but every once in a while someone casts a ray of sunshine through making my day. Cops today don’t seem to be the most popular people on this planet but it’s nice to know we’re still appreciated and I’m thankful for their kindness.
The in-store she did Thursday was the best you’ve ever had, IMO, so immediately afterward I bought every recorded second of hers that you had available. Thus, please don’t enter me in the contest because I already have the record—I just want to encourage everyone to listen to her, and to buy the album if you don’t win. (She didn’t pay me to say that.)
A simple hello and a hug, which doesn’t happen often. In our society, people don’t seem to be affectionate. So when the occasional hug happens, it seems to be healing and universally connecting.
When I didn’t live in Austin I called a friend who lived half an hour away from the Third Man pop up shop in Blueprints a couple of years ago. I really wanted the Sea of Cowards live Dead weather LP and asked him to go to Blueprints to see if there were any left thinking it wouldn’t work.
But he in fact had off that day and responded with a picture text of him on the bus on his way to the store.
When he got there, there was somehow ONE more of the fifteen they had received. As soon as he bought it, someone came in right behind him asking for it but they were all out. He didn’t even make me pay him back and it is now a prize in my collection. I mean the attendee version of Sea of Cowards Live! Best friend ever.
I think the nicest anyone did for me was about a year after my sister had died, eight months after my Mom had died and it was Mothers Day. My best friend called me up that morning just to make sure I was okay. It was out of the blue and it really hit home that this was a person who was going to always have my back. But give the vinyl to LadyDynamite please.
I am a hospice chaplain and the nicest thing people do is invite me into their home and on occasion ask me, someone they just recently met, to perform their funeral service
I like horses.
My mom gave birth to me, which I think was awfully nice of her to do for me.