Matt Keating 'Quixotic' album

Matt Keating has chosen an endangered format (the long-playing record-album) to perform some much-needed resuscitation on the great lost art of the album. It’s exactly the kind of implausible, foolishly romantic, unabashedly retrograde quest that deserves a title like QUIXOTIC. And so it seems perfectly natural that this album should also be a double CD collection of 23 new songs. However, QUIXOTIC is no rock opera. Instead, like two sides of a vinyl LP, each of the 40-or-so minute discs are, essentially, two perfectly paced legs of the same destination-anywhere road trip.

QUIXOTIC finds Keating reunited with longtime studio partner Adam Lasus (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah). The album also marks new collaborations with bassist Jason Mercer (Ron Sexsmith, Ani DiFranco), drummer Jordan Richardson, and guitarist Duane Jarvis (Lucinda Williams, Frank Black).

QUIXOTIC can grab a hold of even the most challenged attention span and take it on one hell of a joyride. It’s a record that never stops giving the listener new sounds to savor, new insights to relate to, new jokes to laugh at, and new things to think about.

press quotes
"Matt Keating is in that same class of songwriter as Ron Sexsmith and Elliot Smith, but doesn't sound at all like either of them. His songs are elegant in structure and packed with wordplay that can amuse, dazzle, or hit way too close to home," -- No Depression

"Beautiful and honest songs of substance and melancholy" -- TimeOut London

“A gem full of songs so well crafted they seem effortless” -- New Music Monthly

“If you yearn for honest songs that make to passage from artist to audience without contrivence or modification, Matt Keating is a cult hero worth cultivating” -- Stereo Review

tour dates
July 10 The Living Room New York, NY
July 12 Coffee East Easton, MD
July 13 The Tin Angel Philadelphia, PA
July 14 The Galaxy Hut Arlington, VA
July 17 The Pour House Raleigh, NC
July 19 The Bluebird Cafe Nashville, TN
July 25 Folk You/Horseshoe Chicago, IL
July 26 Magdalenas Tea House East Lansing, MI
August 12 The Cinema Bar Los Angeles, CA
September 28 Club Cafe Pittsburgh, PA

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Matt Keating - Quixotic