This is Matt. He and I played in the band Castles in high school. It faded into many other projects over the years, but he is now creating music under the moniker M. Pyres, as well as running his own cassette label, Patient Sounds. Patient Sounds is home to M. Pyres, Cochise, Lush Cola (Tim Perry of Weed Diamond), as well as Seattle’s own Cradling and Martha! Mother. Matt has played a large role in guiding my eager listening ears. Making mixes of his music and friends’ music, as well as many other bands from which I still draw influence.

About a year or so ago, he started telling me about this great scene on the east coast: Underwater Peoples, Kurt Vile, Woodsist, Mexican Summer, Real Estate, Julian Lynch. Starting to dive in further now, Lynch’s tunes are making my days brighter than a Gaga stage setup.

Julian’s music has a nice stripped-down quality to his music at most times. When there is any sort of build it really isn’t one instrument standing alone as a lead. The songs will move as if they are but one machine with synchronized limbs. His recordings remind me of some of the things Matt and I have recorded together and separately: definitely tape and definitely cared for, but not overanalyzed. As well as touring most of the summer, Julian Lynch has two upcoming releases: Droplet on a Hot Stone 7″ out through Underwater Peoples and Mare LP out through Olde English Spelling Bee.

You can order his releases here
and look at his tour poster here.

‘Droplet on a Hot Stone’

‘Just Enough’

Colorado gets over 300 days of sunshine a year. It’s no wonder that M. Pyres‘ Matthew Sage has invented a category of music titled: “Sky Gaze”. M. Pyres started in late 2008 when Matthew Sage closed up shop on his former band Castles.  M. Pyres’ sound is a complete departure from Castles’ ambient, atmouspheric sound; a departure that has garnered much attention towards the Fort Collins based 5 piece. On Wednesday March 25th, M. Pyres will be opening for Abe Vigoda and Women in Denver, Colorado. If you will be in or around Denver tomorrow, GO TO THIS SHOW!

In the meantime pacify yourselves with some tracks from M. Pyres’ freshman album: consider me, ghost*. M. Pyres has also passed on the word that a second album is in the works. You can catch a couple demos from the album on their myspace page.

* consider me, ghost has been made available for download with permission from M. Pyres.

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