M ROSS PERKINS – What’s The Matter M Ross? – Vinyl LP Brand New

What’s the Matter, M Ross?, the third instalment from the idiosyncratic M Ross Perkins, finds our boy on an inward journey, exploring the transcendental and existential with his most lyrically confessional album to date. It’s a record that serves notice that multi-instrumentalist Perkins belongs amongst the singer/songwriter zeitgeist that has swooned over MJ Lenderman and Waxahatchee while serving as a conduit to optimism. Composed, performed, and recorded completely by Perkins in his Dayton, OH studio, What’s the Matter… is both the most stripped down and expansive within his tryptic of albums. The headphone symphonies move with a deliberate, composed sophistication while the lyrics explore fresh territory, turning the camera away from the “butterscotch revue” and pointing it into a mirror. “The touch stones of psych pop remain: flourishes of Nilsson are still here, but so are Gram Parsons and Jonathan Richman. If you want to assign geography to What’s the Matter, M Ross?, the album is equal parts Laurel Canyon and Big Pink, more Woodstock the town than the festival. Perkins is a self-contained (late-period) Teenage Fanclub with George Harrison’s spiritual sense of inner wanderlust.

Tracklisting:

1. Hey Man/Hey Self

2. Saccade I

3. Gone (In the Morning)

4. Crying in My Sleep

5. Spiritual Kick

6. Saccade II

7. I Feel So Dumb

8. I Don’t Wanna Be So High

9. Saccade III

10. Baby, My Bad

11. A Date for One

12. That’s Fine

13. Bouquet

14. Saccade IV

15. Quite Right Kindly