“The songs took their time-years-but not because it was a struggle. “This record came together much differently than any record I’ve worked on,” Sheehy tells. It’s kinda the song that started me down this whole journey that took me to completed album (which wasn’t what I thought I was doing at first).” It just made sense to me that ‘Go Missing’ would be included in the batch since everything really revolves around it. I dug up other old songs I hadn’t finished from back then and working on them. “A couple of years ago, after the last Lost Lander and EL VY tours, I started thinking a lot about that period of time when I first started working in the woods all the time. It’s the only song from that time I released, appearing on my solo album Tigerphobia in 2008. But, at that particular time, I was really embracing that hermitude. I’m pretty social and I don’t usually love being alone.
I was isolated, spending days alone in the woods and evenings in a strange town where I didn’t know anyone. I had just gone through a breakup and I just took one of my first jobs as a forester. “I wrote it back around 2007 when I first arrived at the little place I lived in on the coast. Lost Lander's new record 'Aberdeen' isn't out till August 9 but you can get your copy early if you attend a live performance at Disjecta on June 14, 15, 27 or 28“Go Missing” is one of those poignant, ebullience-tinged pop songs that’s “been kicking around for a while,” Sheehy says. It’ll be available on Friday, June 14 to all who attend any of the live performances and then publicly on Friday, August 9.
“We watch the way the audiences react to various elements, ditching ones that don't work and dreaming up new ones to try.” This summer, “the story, especially the way it ends, feels like it's gotten to a place we're all happy with.”Īberdeen is also Lost Lander’s third studio album-“an album of pop songs”-one that features incredible contributions from bandmate Sarah Fennell, Drew Shoals ( Train), Brent Knopf ( EL VY, Menomena), Dave Depper ( Death Cab for Cutie), Scott Magee ( Ural Thomas & the Pain), Dana Bouy (Akron/Family), and Justin Miller. Living in a run-down, remote cabin, he soon became entangled with an eccentric local couple, and those experiences are now documented in what Sheehy describes “as a rock concert, meets The Moth, meets The Twilight Zone.” Told through song and spoken word and accompanied by live-action and animated projections by Stefan Nadelman, “ Aberdeen came together slowly over the last two years and it's changed every single time we've gone out,” Sheehy says. In addition to being a songwriter, Sheehy is a forester, and in 2008 he took a job in Kurt Cobain’s coastal Washington hometown. Sheehy’s most recent endeavor is an experimental song cycle, new album, and one-man, musical storytelling and multimedia experience all wrapped up and packaged as Aberdeen. What’s been captured on record often continues to change with each live performance, keeping things fresh and interesting for the artists and audiences.įor Lost Lander’s Matt Sheehy, it’s often been a process of taking the complex compositions he’s created with numerous collaborators and reenvisioning them for the stage. What you hear on the album has been workshopped during countless band practices, tested in many live sets, and painstakingly recorded, mixed and mastered in studio environments. Lost Lander's Matt SheehyFor many musicians, their songs are in a constant state of evolution.
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