The Berries, the project of Matthew Berry shares dual single “White Peach” and “Wind Chime”. The tracks arrive ahead of his self-titled album album, dropping on August 29th. As he puts it, “This record came out of a need to break from my old self, to break from a lifestyle that I could no longer bear waking up to everyday. It’s equally fueled by remorse and relief—I can rejoice a bit in having found a renewed purpose, but I had to finally stare down everything that was standing in the way of that sense of dignity first.”

After his previous full-length outing, Berry found himself incapable of committing new Berries songs to paper for a number of years, focusing his efforts instead on a string of other projects, including touring with Hotline TNT, his own band Big Bite, and recording material for two new groups, a fuzzed-out rock band titled RAM and a delicately folky acoustic duo dubbed Drug Addict.

It was only through running headfirst into these other projects that Berry found himself finally able to return to The Berries with a new sense of purpose—as he recounts it, “The Berries had become too many things in one, it had become too unwieldy for me to figure out. By creating other bands that let me clear out some of the ideas that were nagging me, I was able to come back to a simpler understanding of what I’ve always wanted The Berries to be: guitar focused singer-songwriter music with grandiose arrangements and minimal, deeply personal lyrics.” Berry and Dixon were joined in the studio by a cast of longtime friends, including Narrow Head’s Kora Puckett, studio drummer Bryan De Leon (The Drums, Ethel Cain), Color Green’s Corey Madden, and poet / musician Julia Lans Nowak, each of whom contributed to the record’s baroque yet precisely streamlined backing tracks and harmonies.

The Berries
The Berries
Tracklist

1 – Sedentary Blues
2 – Vagabond
3 – Angelus
4 – White Peach
5 – Wind Chime
6 – Run You Down
7 – Salt Of The Earth
8 – Lie In The Fire Again
9 – Something Better
10 – Seventh

Pre-order The Berries HERE