Moth by Matty Frank

I was visiting family in CT and showing my new Omnichord to my brother in May 2022. While showing him each and every feature, I got caught up in a simple two chord progression with the disco drum setting and automatic bass. It sounded like the theme of an imp, a scoundrel, scamp, tickster, rascal, scallywag, which took me right to having a bonfire. What’s more impish than throwing a once important document like a final exam or a bill into a fire? A lot, but that’s maybe the limit most of us get to experience in our civilized lives. I listened to this piece of a song every day when I first wrote it, trying as hard as I could to finish it, but had to put it down for a while. I hadn’t thought of the moth visual motif of this album at the time yet, but after I did, over a year later, I finally made the connection between it and the flame. Who is more excited about fire than moths? Who gets more excited about natural phenomena than the character of this album? It all came together quite quickly, despite this being my first dance oriented song, something I never thought I would be inclined to do. Moth is all about release, then, even for me; letting go of musical hangups and admitting to making fun pop music, and for the listener, letting go of paper, some sanity, the need to maintain an appearance. All of it goes into the fire.

Self-taught in almost all of his musical and engineering skills, multi instrumentalist and vocalist Matty Frank combines pop and r&b vocal runs with introspective indie folk rock sound palettes inspired by the genre's saddest of lesbians. With lyricism at once infinitesimally specific and boundlessly universal, Matty Frank shows that queer people have more to talk about than same sex attraction.

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