MATT CHAMPION RELEASES DEBUT SOLO ALBUM MIKA’S LAUNDRY OUT NOW VIA RCA RECORDS
MATT CHAMPION RELEASES DEBUT SOLO ALBUM
SHARES NEW MUSIC VIDEO FOR “DOGFISH”
MIKA’S LAUNDRY OUT NOW VIA RCA RECORDS
Matt Champion by Anna Pollack
Mika’s Laundry
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“Dogfish”
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(March 22nd, 2024) – Today, Matt Champion releases his debut solo album Mika’s Laundry. The album includes previously released singles, “Aphid” featuring Dijon, “Slug,” and his recent collaboration with JENNIE, “Slow Motion,” which PAPER Magazine called a “surging, heart-on-sleeve track.” Alongside director Anna Pollack, Matt has unveiled a fully realized visual world around Mika’s Laundry that includes the newly-released video for “Dogfish,” which displays the many colors of his Arcadian utopia.
Mika’s Laundry represents a defining shift in Matt’s sound with his return to solo music, taking his time to mold new ideas over the course of several years and craft a singular body of work that many may not have expected. 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 world Matt crafted within which the album exists. 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. On album opener “Green,” Champion ushers in this eco-brutalist dreamscape with layered, manipulated vocals that mimic the sound of laser beams as he wanders through a mundane daydream. Piece by piece Champion builds his musical sanctuary and dives deeper into themes of existentialism, forming his own conclusions on desire and affection, most notably on album track “Steel” featuring Dora Jar. With Mika’s Laundry, Matt is reintroducing himself through a free and meticulously crafted personal statement of his experiences in life and love, scored by the sounds of a future he’s envisioned.
Listen to Mika’s Laundry and check out the “Dogfish” video above and stay tuned for more from the artist below.
Album artwork
Matt Champion
Mika’s Laundry
March 22, 2024
RCA Records
- Green
- Aphid (feat. Dijon)
- Steel (feat. Dora Jar)
- Gbiv
- Purify
- Dogfish
- Code Red
- Aren’t You Excited
- Slug
- Everybody Likes You
- Project
- Slow Motion (with JENNIE)
- Meetin’ You
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.
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