A fun, ROCK guitar album. I spent the end of 2023 and the bulk of 2024 writing music for a live band that never got off the ground. Simple compositions that people in a room could reproduce. Something fun with a lot of energy. The band didn't happen but I loved the songs.
I have them collected for you here! An overstuffed album with tons of music. At the beginning of 2024 I started taking ADHD medication and it allowed me to focus in ways I never have before. This has been a productive and creatively rewarding year. There's another 10 songs that didn't get recorded for this project. I'm unlikely to write this many good songs in such a short period of time again soon.
St. Alia of the Knife is Mat Rothwell Amyx, a 90s kid that grew up loving Nirvana, Pavement, Da La Soul, and the Chemical Brothers. After a classic nerd stint studying art in college, Mat has dedicated himself to applying the right emotional expressive aesthetics as much as any musical theory to his songs. He has since recorded many, MANY albums of proggy/shoegazey/post-rocky lo-fi D.I.Y. music.