Manager & Booking Agent:
Scott McKenzie
Premier Artists
ph: +61 3 9699 9555
fax: +61 3 9696 0807
email: scotty@premierartists.com.au
web: www.premierartists.com.au
Musically, Matheson deftly tread the lines between intricate ballads of love & loss, alt-country waltzes and straight-up, riff-laden rockers. Aaron Matthews, the band's lyricist and guitarist, delivers songs like 'Safe For Now' and 'River & The Sun' with delicacy and immediacy. Yet the band quickly turns that on its head through powerful numbers like 'To Drown Amongst The Dead' and 'I Was Her Man'. Matthews' lyical poetry conjures images of Colonial Australia on '1859', and nights spent in alcohol-soaked bars on 'Mary Lynn'.
On bass, Mark Perry weaves a wonderful low-end tapestry upon which the guitars float. Steve Martin's work behind the drum kit helps provide a light and a shade, letting the rockers rock and the rollers roll. With guest guitars by Cam McKenzie and Dan Houlihan, as well as keyboards and backing vocals from Yuko Nishiyama, Matheson have crafted a rich, lucious, tender, yet bombastic record.
Matheson hail from Provincial Victoria – a sleepy gold mining city named Ballarat. The geographical connection is evident throughout their new album 'These Are My Horses', with tales of isolation interspersed with images of the countryside. On the same hand, there's a feeling of hope drifting through the collection of songs – an undeniably uplifting feel to the record.
The band recorded the album with Cam McKenzie (Horsehead, Mark Seymour, Things Of Stone And Wood). Recorded in a handful of sessions at Eastern Bloc Studios in
Melbourne and McKenzie's Station Place studio, 'These Are My Horses' is set for release in October 2009.
