There’s under the radar and there’s so far under the radar that you have to be a stealth bomber. Matt Maverick is the pilot of this particular stealth bomber that has also been released on that most archaic of formats, the cassette.
“Outsideness”, perhaps unsurprisingly, does not court the attentions of the general record buying public but neither is it artistically obscure. Comprised of some remarkably consistent musical musings in finest lo-fi sound, Matt Maverick walk that thin line between garage and psych rock with a very decent degree of finesse. “Death Race” and “The Creature” start things off in a pretty conventional way but, as the album progresses, the concept of playing in the surf whilst partaking of a psychological wanderlust seems to take hold with “Tiny Rhythms” breaking left and heading off to play in the dark folk backyards normally inhabited by the likes of King Dude.
Something of curiosity, as much as for the music as its format, “Outsideness” does nonetheless manage to cast a spell over your attention and I did feel more than a bit nostalgic about this album being released on cassette too.
Available on cassette from Already Dead Tapes.