Matt Majic lets bream swim through New Zealand progressive rock waters

Matt Majic’s bream arrives on 7 June with a title that refuses to explain itself, which is honestly a good start. The New Zealand artist tags the track around alternative and progressive rock, but what stands out is the compact independent energy of the release. There is no huge campaign language, no breathless mythology, no overinflated promise that this one track will reinvent guitar music forever. Instead, bream feels like a small, odd object placed into the world for people curious enough to pick it up. Progressive rock often gets associated with excess, but there is another version of the form that is simply about taking a sideways route through structure, rhythm and mood. Matt Majic seems comfortable in that stranger lane. The result is a track that feels modest on the surface, but hints at a musical brain more interested in unusual angles than easy polish.

Source: https://mattmajic.bandcamp.com/track/bream