NOW OUT: NOTHING PERSONAL

Backing Band Features: Glenn Kotche (Wilco) - drums; Griffin Rodriguez (HIM) bass; Gillian Lisee (Fruit Bats) - organ; Matt Schneider - superstar electric guitar; Ben Massarella (Califone) - percussion; Carl Brahms - piano; Josh Berman - trumpet.

Matt Marque uses a combination of hip hop beats, acoustic guitar and narcotic hooks to lay the sounds for this sophomore release from the Chicago native. Nothing Personal’s mixture of electronic and live instrumentation is truly organic in its sound and approach, built from the ground up, one instrument at a time, constantly reshaped and rewritten as each additional instrument was added. The combination of Wilco’s Glenn Kotche on drums and Him’s Griffin Rodriguez on bass produce some of the sleepiest grooves that you have heard in some time. Harkens back to Nick Drake, but much more urban sounding and not so dreary. Produced and Engineered by Joe Ferguson at Clava studios - home to Califone and Perishable Records.

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REVIEWS

A review of Matt’s first record from a Japanese site - translated by our own Mr. Babelfish:

If light of the warm window where you stop the usual return route step smell of the stew which starts spilling, the eye meets, the cat which keeps escaping, riding the rhythm which such a singing makes the ? ?, you draw warm curved line. It is the good song where the pace it is light even in the cold night, soaks. (Willow)

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Check out Matt Marque's official site.

Nothing Personal
2004

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Get There
2001

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Disco Nap
2000