Listen: Captivity Scene $2 / Guest Mix by Matt DeMello

A lifelong veteran of Providence, Rhode Island’s burgeoning art-pop scene, Matt DeMello escaped his New England home turf earlier this decade, landing at the physical and spiritual midway point between Woodstock and Brooklyn.

His debut solo album, 2014’s There’s No Place Like Nowhere shortly followed. Embracing synth pop orchestras a la Soft Bulletin era Flaming Lips and the broken-hearted piano odes of Antony & The Johnsons, DeMello’s debut documented one man’s reaction to the contemporary landscape or as he puts it, “theme music for someone at a party who feels so utterly alone.” – WithGuitars

(A​-​Typical) Candidate [For Rampage Violence] – Single is out now.

See also – Captivity Scene $1

Tracklist

Lab Collab – Whiskey Business/Sweet Feelings (feat. Wunderkind)
NNAMDÏ – sHOULD hAvE kNOwN (Sooper Records / Father/Daughter Records)
Quichenight – Sousa
Kurt Stenzel – Greatest Movie Never Made (Cinewax)
Vagabon – Water Me Down (Nonesuch)
Hopkirk – Radioactive Locusts
Big Joanie – Fall Asleep (The Daydream Library Series)
Vic Spencer – Seat For One
Baruch Williamson – Deutschland (Dream Museum Records)
Mo Troper – Princess
Tasha – But There’s Still the Moon
The Ophelias – O Command (Joyful Noise Recordings)
MDK – Do You Want to Be Murdered
Prince – Train
Purple – Beach Buddy (Beverly Martel)
Young Jesus – Magicians (Saddle Creek)
thisisldm – Black Delorean (Insert Tapes)
ANGELFVCE & Errheart – A place I can’t forget (Waters End)
Logic – Celebration
Sad13 – Hysterical (Wax Nine)
Carpenters – Help
theUltimateSKETCH – Done Done
Hackosef – M Y S T E R I O U S
Weyes Blood – Nearer to Thee
Bob Dylan – Crossing the Rubicon
Pheobe Bridgers – Graceland Too (Dead Oceans)
The Lemon Twigs – The Lesson
Joey Joesph – Cabin Essence (Beach Boys cover)
Books on Tape – Johnny Drunk on the Rocks
NNAMDÏ – Glass Casket (Sooper Records)
Lydia Loveless – Say My Name
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – HERMENEUTICS 07
NNAMDÏ – White Savior Sequel
William Carlos Whitten – Hate #4
Thanya Iyer – Bring Back That Which is Kind to You
Matt DeMello – Strychnine (Sonics Cover)