Goodbye Wudaokou
Anything Of Us
guitar pop / post punk / jangle pop / dream pop / indie pop
Subjangle
Manchester’s Mat Mills makes heartfelt lo-fi indie and dream pop, with hints of shoegaze and 90s alt rock, touching on themes of lost love, lost youth, legacy, and the beauty and danger of living in the past.
Anything Of Us, Mat's sophomore album, sees him explore further his poppy dreamy universe across 11 heartfelt tracks, taking in influences from the Field Mice, New Order, The Railway Children and the Wedding Present to late 80s and 90s US indie, such as Yo La Tengo, Dinosaur Jr, REM, Nada Surf, Sebadoh and Sonic Youth, in addition to more recent Bay Area jangle pop.
It was written, recorded and mixed by Mat, and mastered by Ben Holton (Epic 45). Mat's better half, Desiree Xu, provides additional backing vocals on some of the tracks.
Unashamedly pop and proudly lo-fi, Anything Of Us feels slightly more urgent and grittier than the first record. While it doesn’t have an overarching theme, one sense which comes through is that of the different types of love one can experience throughout a life – the fizziness of new love, the fleeting love that still leaves a mark, unrequited love and the complexities of love and life in a long-term relationship.
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