Catching Up With: Matt Mays

“Catching Up With” is a new interview series where we reconnect with an artist who has
previously used the NoiseTrade platform and chat with them about what they’re doing now. This week we’re catching up with Canadian indie-rocker Matt Mays about his new acoustic album Twice Upon a Hell of a Time… (out now on Sonic Records).

NoiseTrade: With your newest album Twice Upon a Hell of a Time… being a rootsy acoustic companion album to last year’s Once Upon a Hell of a Time…, what first sparked the idea the reinterpret the album’s songs through this alternate instrumental creative filter?

Matt Mays: I kind of turned the filters off for this version, I suppose. I’ve always really enjoyed messing around with the production of music and experimenting with different styles, tempos and rhythms to see what the shift in style would or could convey. The shift in feeling can sometimes be pretty drastic however the songs somehow still seem to carry the same weight and intent.

NT: Since the recording sessions for Twice Upon a Hell of a Time… were split up across different days and different studios due to your busy touring schedule, did that experience shape the recording process in any different way from a typical “consecutive days in a single studio” type process?

Mays: We did most of the meat and potatoes at a studio called Metalworks, which helped maintain some of the continuity between songs. We added the stoner candy in some different locations after the fact mostly at Baldwin Street Sound.

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