Paul Jackson, Charles Stella and Eric Din from The Uptones have a new entity called Matte Plastic, and here’s their new single, New Threads! It’s in Pandora and Apple and Spotify and other many other streaming gizmos, and here’s the embed from our beloved Bandcamp:
Play it, share it, put on some new threads and out with the old! Happy new year from all of us at Berkeley Cat Records!
For an outerview with Paul and Eric, discussing this song and how it came about, pop in here.
That is all!
Paul Jackson and Eric Din discuss the creation of New Threads – a brand new single from Matte Plastic – in the very first Berkeley Cat Records Podcats Outerview.
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Kittyfriends! In order to escape, at least partially, the dark clutches of corporate social network dystopian hellfire, Berkeley Cat Records has launched an old school, low tech, super-simple no frills DIY EMAIL list! Remember email lists? Remember email? When the world was innocent, and young. You are at liberty to paw your way in through the cat door on your right (or if you’re on a smart-thingy, you will likely have to scroll down). This will give us a way to contact interested cats directly, unencumbered by the nefarious whim of diabolical algorithms which are destroying hoomans’ brains. Now, that’s sorted! Welcome, hello.
It’s Catursunday. And the Russ Ellis CD album is now available for sale thru our wonderful Bandcamp, campers. It’s the whole “Songs From The Garden” LP plus the Oom Chugga Challenge remixes, in a fab “eco-pack” designed by Katie Hawkinson with cover art by young Dex Ellis. A heartfelt Berkeley Cat thanks to all the marvelous musicians and singers who created this unique record album, and everyone who picked it up and gave ‘er a spin online. Did I say “record album?” I did. It’s all online for listening, and you can still download it for free, and now if ya like, you may procure one of the 300 physical units (did I say “units?” I did) in all of existence, in time for the holidays! That is all 😽
Sometimes songs are their own best description, and I think that is the case here. I had fun making this, and I am still fascinated and surprised by it a few weeks later. Based on real events, of course. Hope you enjoy.
This place isn’t here anymore
This place isn’t here anymore
This place isn’t here anymore
The Bank of Nowhere closed all the accounts
All transactions are fraudulent now (all the cards are cancelled now)
Plastic pink flamingos flying south
This place isn’t here anymore
This place isn’t here anymore
This place isn’t here anymore
This place isn’t here anymore
Schools are empty, the golf course growing wild
There’s no water in the old swimming hole
There’s no drinks at the bar where our story’s told
This place isn’t here anymore
Junior says they don’t know what to look for
I used to know just right where we are
Now I’ve lost my way in a self-driving car
And this place isn’t here anymore
It’s not here anymore
This place isn’t here anymore
It’s gone for sure
Oh, this place isn’t here anymore
Eric Din – acoustic guitars, electric bass, vocals, production
Thomas White – drums
© 2021 Eric Roy Dinwiddie
King Roy Music, BMI
We are over the moon excited about this new release from Matte Martin. The lad ensconced himself in his home studio over the last year or so of societal hellfire and lunacy, and has emerged with this self-produced epic. By Interweb magic, it is but a click away in the Bandcamp widget below. If you dig it and buy the download, the dough will go straight to Matte’s own paws and reward him directly for his efforts. Lyrically original and unique, musically adventurous and unexpected at every turn, a brilliant follow-up to 2020’s amazing Bridge LP, we are thrilled to present, Violent Order, available to the entire known universe now on Berkeley Cat Records.
– Eric Din
