Pre-Order: Jared Mattson & Ruban Nielson – FEAR [LP]

Description

FEAR – the joint album from Jared Mattson of The Mattson 2 and Ruban Nielson of Unknown Mortal Orchestra – was recorded in June of 2024. All recording and mixing took place in Palm Springs. Mastered by Matt Colton at Metropolis Studios in London.
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I woke up around noon, disoriented, half-dreaming. Music was playing unfamiliar, fully formed, the kind of sound you assume belongs to someone elses life. For a moment I thought I was still asleep, hearing music I wished Id made. Then it hit me: Ruban Nielson was already awake, in the studio, listening to what wed made. We both knew it. There was something inevitable about the music like it hadnt been created so much as uncovered. We listened on repeat, laughing, shaking our heads. One track brought up a shared image: an evergreen forest by a lake at sunset. Ruban suddenly looked up, eyes wide, like hed just been handed a message.

Ive got the title, he said. American Eagle.

The name landed the same way the music had clean, obvious, impossible to argue with. The American Dream: hot dogs, Cokes, sunset drives. We both lost it, tears in our eyes from laughing hard for minutes straight. We swam in his pool. The conversation never stopped. The flow stayed constant, nourishing, effortless. Then Ruban said it again the line that had already become a principle: Lets make more that sound exactly like this. So we did.
Two days later, FEAR was finished.

– Jared Mattson

Tracklist:

1. 1A. HIGH T
2. 2A. RAZORBLADE
3. 3A. TESTAROSSA
4. 4A. AMERICAN EAGLE
5. 1B. TOUCHDOWN
6. 2B. RIVER RAFTING
7. 3B. WEDGIE

UPC: 656605249117
Label: Jagjaguwar
Release Date: 6.5.26
Format: Vinyl