My Life In - Music

Behind The Sweat-Drenched Performances The Orange Amps And Squalling Anthems Of L.A.’s Tennis System Is One Leather-Clad Lone Wolf Matty Taylor Whose Bedroom Musings Bleed Their Way Into A Kind Of Unhinged Lo-Fi Psychedelia. Arriving In Los Angeles Was A Spirit Quest That Took Taylor From One Coast To The Other It Was In Gritty Washington D.C. That A Young Taylor Steeped Like Tea In The Music Of Fugazi And Bad Brains Black Tambourine And Velocity Girl. Now Taylor Distills His Adopted Home’s Sun-Bleached Optimism And Its Heartbreaking Letdowns “Lovers And Fake Friends” Abandons Its Dreamy Beginnings For A Disenchanted Dinosaur Jr.-Esque Riot Of Guitars. “I Want It All” May As Well Be The Lament Of Every Sorry West Coast Dream-Chaser. read less