The Mattson 2
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With their shared DNA and profound connection, the Mattson twins are unlike any band you've seen before.
– Washington Post
The twin-brother jazz duo are experts at channeling the sounds of light and ease, and there’s something almost alchemical about their mutual precision.
– Pitchfork
It is LA jazz via the psychedelia-lite of Mac DeMarco and Tame Impala. It’s complexities are often hidden away beneath deceptively simple sounding riffs and refrains.
– Loud and Quiet
While the two prove to be stellar songwriters, it’s their extended jams and vibe-setting that make this such an enticing listen.
– Vice
– Washington Post
The twin-brother jazz duo are experts at channeling the sounds of light and ease, and there’s something almost alchemical about their mutual precision.
– Pitchfork
It is LA jazz via the psychedelia-lite of Mac DeMarco and Tame Impala. It’s complexities are often hidden away beneath deceptively simple sounding riffs and refrains.
– Loud and Quiet
While the two prove to be stellar songwriters, it’s their extended jams and vibe-setting that make this such an enticing listen.
– Vice
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The Mattson 2’s recent output includes the celebratory, disco-splashed Toro Y Moi single Millennium which appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The twin brothers cameoed in the joints video as grumpy orderlies in a mental ward high-jacking instruments from Chaz Bear’s bandmates. The 2’s previous release Paradise found them evoking the lush and carefree soundscapes of Japanese city pop. Their 2018 release Vaults of Eternity: Japan was full of loving reinterpretations of songs by artists like Haruomi Hosono and Ryuichi Sakamoto, and while Paradise doesn’t indulge in sonic excess, it does capture that breezy, sun-filled vibe. It charted Billboard at #1 Contemp. Jazz, #2 Jazz, #20 Alternative, and landed features in the Washington Post and Pitchfork. Amongst collabs w/ Ray Barbee, Tommy Guerrero, Farmer Dave (of Kurt Vile), and Money Mark (of Beastie Boys), they released Star Stuff in 2017 with Chaz Bear (FKA Chaz Bundick, AKA Toro Y Moi) — also #1 on Billboard contemporary. jazz charts — and reinterpreted Coltrane’s legendary A Love Supreme which Ashely Kahn (author of A Love Supreme: The Creation of John Coltrane’s Classic Album, 2002) says “there is a depth of sincerity and reverence in what the Mattson’s are doing that is unquestionable.”
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