MATT PLESS Smoking Hot on Re-Recorded 'Tumbleweed'

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Anyone who says that there aren’t any good new bands out there needs to spend more time looking online for indie artists, cause the truth of the matter is that most of the best new music isn’t the signed, radio overplayed, label releases. One excellent example is Folk Punk singer / songwriter MATT PLESS. If Gordon Gano instigated an orgy with Bob Dylan, PJ Harvey and John Prine while Nick Cave and Tom Waits watched, the offspring would be this Baltimore, MD solo artist. His recently re-recorded LP, Tumbleweed, is best described as “an explosion of dynamic discordance, mixing driving, confrontational punk acoustic jams with gentle, canorous melodies.” Check out the opening track, “Ashtray,” and definitely get a hold of this album!

“’Ashtray’ came about because I smoked an ashtray-worth of cigarettes in the half hour that it took to write the song…I had been playing music full time for quite a while. I was tired of finding myself performing at shows that were as empty as my pockets and was frustrated at the state of my life, the world, and the indie art community. I had been listening to a lot of obscure music circulating in the punk scene and had stumbled across a song by another artist which included a lyric that said: “If I found God anywhere it would be by the tracks”. From there, inspiration threw me my own variation on the line that would open “Ashtray”: “Someone asked me if I found God, yes, I think we’ve met a couple times. But, I’m not sure if it was Him ’cause I can’t look Her in the eye” – Matt Pless

Tumbleweed Track List:

Track List:
1. Ashtray
2. Piggy Bank
3. My Crooked Ways
4. Mad Child’s Lament
5. What You Will
6. The Book of You and I
7. Portland
8. Talkin’ Information Blues
9. The Crayon Song
10. White Picket Fences
11. My Idea of Heaven
12. In the Past Tense