Matty on Bandcamp.
I was about to huff and puff about “FOOL 4 U” and the Eels-ness of it all, but Matty surprised me with that falsetto in the chorus. If one day Matty gets as weird and Midwest as Robert Pollard on Alien Lanes, I’ll gift him my firstborn.
-Brady Gerber
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