My second standalone single. The most straightforward song I’ve released, but also one of the most personal.
Matthew Stenroos - Trophy Love
My first standalone, non-album single.
Matthew Stenroos - I Can’t Love Away Your Hurt (single)
My second solo record, Lunar Tide has been described paradoxically as having “a free-form sense of reckless creative abandon” and being “a lesson in style and restraint”. Featuring contributions from Andy Clausen (Fleet Foxes, The Westerlies), Finnegan Shanahan (Contemporaneous, New Amsterdam Records), James Quinlan (Sammy Rae And The Friends), and Ricky Petraglia (Escaper). Recorded at Saltlands Studio and in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. Mastered by the Grammy-nominated Joe Lambert (Animal Collective, The Antlers, etc.). Released independently on July 7th, 2015.
Matthew Stenroos - Lunar Tide
Mantra, the latest record from my ambient project Sixty Ton Angel, is guided meditation music designed for riding the New York City subway system. The project was born incidentally while I was undergoing an anxiety attack on the subway, and began repeating phrases to myself: “I am on the train”; “the train is in the station”; “each rider on the train has a destination.” By doing so I inadvertently entered a hypnotic meditative state. These phrases evolved into the mindfulness cues featured on the record. I spent several months busking the project on subway platforms by providing a sign with a QR code, from which riders could stream the record during their ride. The album was co-produced by Carson Graham.