Eternifinity by The Mattoid

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New Wave | Folk Rock

6 tracks | 20 minutes

Released Feb 2007
on Cleft Music

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The Mattoid is his own freak folks style known as "SANGO". It's like the Ramones playing a tango.

Editorial review

Supernatural Scandinavian being the Mattoid knows how destructive his dark powers have become, so in a rare display of compassion he has chosen to ease the gentle public back into his terrifying and simplistic world with a six-track EP. Eternifinity doesn't stray too far from the infectious Velvet Underground-meets-Martin Denny-swing of his full-length debut, Hello, but there's a newfound sensuality to the whole affair that finds the perpetually hard-partying heathen moved by the invisible bonds of friendship, while still driven mad by the carelessly parted hips of love. Beginning with "Joy," a late-night rumination on both subjects, the Mattoid ponders his good luck with concentrated restraint before unleashing his signature throat-singing, a guttural war cry that conjures up the image of Louis Armstrong and Grover from Sesame Street chasing each other around a turnstile with hammers. "Crazy Muthas" mirrors Hello's sunnier moments, focusing on the Mattoid's enviable -- and unbending -- positive outlook in the face of emotional and physical strife, growing more and more confident with each repetition of the mantra "I'm a crazy mutha on my way to the sun." "Tinkli Vinkli" and "Little Surfer" are both amiable little rock & roll nuggets in the vein of Ween -- without the wink -- and the not-so-subtle love song "Blow" ("every time you blow it makes me feel so...yeah") gives every indication that the Mattoid has lost none of his nihilistic verve. Eternifinity closes with a re-recorded -- heavier on the "sango" -- version of Hello's "Happiness," and its' long refrain of "happy, happy, happy," sung desperately over a minor key finally reveals the Mattoid for what he is: a modern day practitioner of the Portuguese fado in the guise of an Elvis-loving, culturally displaced, goatee-adorned Finn living in the most heartbroken city in the world, Nashville Tennessee. ~ James Christopher Monger, All Music Guide

Bio / Background

ETERNIFINITY! The odds and ends follow up to the undergound hit album, "HELLO"!!! This ep contains two outtakes from the debut album (Joy, Tinkli Vinkli) as well as a groovy return to HELLO's melancholic pop masterpiece, "Happiness".

Extra production finds its way onto this 2nd outing, with William Tyler (Lambchop, Silverjews) adding lead guitar and Loney Hutchins (Bobby Bare Jr, Wrong Angles) adding bass and drum duties. A must have for fans of The Mattoid's sharp debut.

popmatters.com review:

"The Mattoid. With a name like that you might expect a former WWF Intercontinental Champion, perhaps someone who had a longstanding feud with the Junkyard Dog in the early '80s. That's not quite it, although the intercontinental tag fits. The Nashville-based Helsinki native certainly has an, um, unique sound. I think this EP of his would make a fine soundtrack for Baltimore's American Visionary Art Museum, one of the country's foremost outsider art locales.