The latest Wet Tuna LP is called Vast — and you’d be hard-pressed to come up with a better title for this collection of strange and funky flights. It’s a wide-open, far-flung album, deeply textured and ridiculously detailed, but somehow spacious and inviting. A psychedelic micro-galaxy/macro-dose that teems with life and imagination. Close to a decade in, this is the fourth proper Wet Tuna offering (not counting an array of more “under-the-counter” situations), but the project is just another whistle-stop on the Matt Valentine express.
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Dean Roberts (Thela, White Winged Moth) :: A Remembrance by Matt Valentine
New Zealand musician Dean Roberts, beloved in the underground for his albums with Thela and White Winged Moth, passed away unexpectedly on August 10. As a tribute, his longtime friend and collaborator Matt Valentine offers up this personal remembrance.
Every Sound Means Something: Wooden Wand Interviews Matt “MV” Valentine
I have already sung the praises of Matt “MV” Valentine elsewhere. For the Google-averse, I can sum it up by saying that MV’s music–both with and without his partner, co-conspirator […]