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MAT KEREKES Nova Exclusive LP With Autographed Postcard

Mat Kerekes
Nova Exclusive LP With Autographed Postcard

$9.99
Mat Kerekes
  • Color: Red In Coke Bottle Clear
  • Limited to: 5 Per Customer
Description

A Newbury Comics exclusive color vinyl pressing. Purchase includes postcard signed by Mat Kerekes.

Mat Kerekes, founder and vocalist of the band Citizen, has announced his upcoming solo LP called ‘Nova’, which will be released on August 5, 2022.

The album’s title was inspired by two places - an early 2000s PC game and the state where he’s living. He’s been splitting time between his hometown Toledo, Ohio and Woodbridge in North Virginia—NoVa to locals. A rerelease of the fantasy hack-and-slash game Diablo 2 brought the second iteration with a character’s special attack called ‘frost nova.’ The stars had aligned: ‘Nova’ would be the next record.

If this sounds like a shockingly chill way to name a record, that’s the point. The new album is brimming with imagination, humor, romance, balls, and whimsy. ‘Nova’ isn’t a record that feels like our grave, endlessly serious historical moment; it’s a record that escapes it.

Kerekes recorded and engineered the record in the basement of his Virginia house, but after tracking drums he discovered a new pet peeve: his own drum style. To redo the drums, he called up his friend, Turnstile drummer Daniel Fang. The pair worked together over two days in Toledo with Steve Warstler, who mixed and mastered the record. At one point, Fang was blasting out drum fills while they were taking levels from his kit. Kerekes hit record. The result is track five, a nine-second percussion meltdown titled “Daniel Fang.” “I thought it was funny, so I put it on the record,” shrugs Kerekes.

‘Nova’ isn’t an essential, high-brow distillation of a theme, angle, or topic. It’s just good, fun music, plain and simple. In an industry full of on-the-nose branding, marketing, and sales of ideas, identities, and experiences, Nova feels like the anti-record; it feels honest and real.

Item Details
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Limited edition of: 400
  • Label: Wax Bodega
  • Mono/Stereo: Stereo
  • Catalog Number: WXBO10NBC.1

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