Matt DeMello is an all-purpose, artisanal singer songwriter living in Peekskill, NY. DeMello grew up in northern Rhode Island, where he became active in the Providence noise, hardcore and math-rock scenes through the 2000s before moving west to record his debut album 'There's No Place Like Nowhere' in 2014. Originally released to shrugs from his friends and relatives, the album's synthesizer-derived orchestral arrangements would go on to win DeMello
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Matt DeMello is an all-purpose, artisanal singer songwriter living in Peekskill, NY. DeMello grew up in northern Rhode Island, where he became active in the Providence noise, hardcore and math-rock scenes through the 2000s before moving west to record his debut album 'There's No Place Like Nowhere' in 2014. Originally released to shrugs from his friends and relatives, the album's synthesizer-derived orchestral arrangements would go on to win DeMello a cult-like following on Twitter's #freebandcampcodes hashtag among "vaporwave adjacent" audiences. In the meantime, DeMello and a new backing band calling themselves The Significant Looks began cultivating new, more genre-skeptical material for live audiences at the legendary anti-folk haunt at the Sidewalk Cafe in Alphabet City. In the onset COVID, the Significant Looks were scattered to the winds just as they were finalizing material for their first EP. Meanwhile, numerous offers to perform streaming shows for vaporwave and other electronic labels across the world were driving DeMello to develop more esoteric material. The result became the whirlwind releases of 2021's psych noise Christmas double-album 'Cassandra Abandoned, I & II [Marion's Version]' and 2022's 'Confetti in a Coalmine'. The latter was hailed by blogs and critics as a cohesion of Zappa-esque fleets of fantastical composition and protest music from all eras, all grounded in tried-and-true tropes straight from the great American songbook. In 2023, DeMello released 'Jennifer's Appendix, Vol. 7: Reimagining Abbey Road' featuring the Significant Looks' aborted recordings from 2019, when they were performing the eponymous Beatles album from end-to-end at bars to make quick money. The recordings reveal the sessions as an opportunity for DeMello to get into the heads of everyone's favorite songwriting team, while paying tribute to the legendary medleys of Side B. DeMello now leads a backing band going by the monicker of The Dead Space Quintet. He's currently recording a new album of "trap vaporwave beats" with a release date TBA.
