MATT CHAMPION ANNOUNCES DEBUT SOLO ALBUM ‘MIKA’S LAUNDRY’ DUE MARCH 22ND VIA RCA RECORDS
MATT CHAMPION ANNOUNCES DEBUT SOLO ALBUM
MIKA’S LAUNDRY DUE MARCH 22ND VIA RCA RECORDS
SHARES NEW SINGLE “SLOW MOTION” IN COLLABORATION WITH JENNIE
Matt Champion by Anna Pollack
Mika’s Laundry
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“Slow Motion”
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(March 8th, 2024) – Today, Matt Champion announces his forthcoming debut solo album Mika’s Laundry, and shares his latest single “Slow Motion” in collaboration with JENNIE. The album will be released March 22nd via RCA Records and includes previously released singles “Aphid” featuring Dijon and “Slug,” both of which were accompanied by Anna Pollack-directed music videos.
Mika’s Laundry crystallizes a radical shift for Matt in his return to his solo music, experimenting with new ideas over the course of several years to mold a singular sound. Speaking to this new approach, “Slow Motion” sees Champion wrestle with his peace of mind, complemented by production that nods to drum and bass influences. At the album’s core, Matt writes thoughtfully about the complexities of his relationships and asks the existential questions that come with growing up and discovering your place amongst your peers. Matt co-produced the album alongside Henry Kwapis, Dijon, and a handful of other close collaborators, warping his voice to complement the textures of the music.
Equally important to the music is the dystopian world Matt crafted for the album to exist within. A remote, but technologically sound community of cement-walled facilities, open plains, and greenhouse-like domes, at the center of which lies the album’s namesake club, Mika’s Laundry. Partnering with director Anna Pollack, Matt pieced the world together through a series of visuals that illustrate Matt’s idyllic future.
Pre-save/order Mika’s Laundry and listen to “Slow Motion” above and stay tuned for more from the artist coming soon.
Matt Champion
Mika’s Laundry
March 22, 2024
RCA Records
More about Matt Champion and Mika’s Laundry:
Matt Champion is evolving in ways nobody could’ve predicted. Cutting his teeth as a rapper in the sprawling collective Brockhampton, he’s now matured into an artist of honesty and experience, with a glitchy, soulful sound, blurring the lines between rapping and singing while stacking and shaping his vocals into supernatural forms. His debut solo album, Mika’s Laundry, paints a dustbowl vision of the future that crystallizes his radical shift.
“The whole process of this album was trying to find something without looking for it,” Matt says. Instead of formally writing lyrics, Henry would press record and Matt would play with the textures of his voice, arriving at ideas naturally.
Two weeks of sessions in 2020 with Dijon and Henry led to the warbly “Aphid” and a bunch of dead ends. A two-hour drive out to Mountain Center, CA, is where his next undertaking really blossomed. In the remote desert, he, Henry, and a small cadre of collaborators experimented with a cyborg soul style inspired by the video game-like world Matt was building.
Matt took his time—actual years—slowly fitting together these threads into the sequence of Mika’s Laundry, which serves as a proper introduction to Matt and the curated sound of the future he’s envisioning.
“Slow Motion” single artwork
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