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Matt and The Watt Gives

The debut album is here.

Matt & The Watt Gives vinyl

Matt & The Watt Gives

the debut album from Matt Pelham • June 13, 2025

  • 01. Wilder Days 3:19
  • 02. The Shade 3:14
  • 03. Cutting Ties 2:39
  • 04. Castles 3:12
  • 05. Half the Fight 4:34
  • 06. Strange Devotion 4:03
  • 07. Natchez 3:39
  • 08. The Chemo Blues 3:51
  • 09. ‘Til You 2:54
  • 10. For Every Dream 3:06
All songs written and produced by Matt Pelham

All songs performed by Matt Pelham
except:
Drums on tracks 2,4 and 9 by Joshua Moore
Drums on tracks 3, 5 and 8 by Rollum Haas
Drums on tracks 1, 6, 7 and 10 by Justin Neely
Bass guitar on track 9 by Roger Dabbs.
Alto Saxophone on tracks 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 and 10 by Daniel Backe
Additional Background vocals on track 3 by Danielle Pelham

Recorded in The Sun Room by Matt Pelham
except:
Drums on tracks 2, 4 and 9 / Bass guitar and acoustic guitars on track 9 recorded at Electric Thunder Studios in Nashville by Craig Alvin and Brian Carter

Mixed by Matt Pelham
Mastered by Patrick Damphier
Album artwork by Edith Pelham

Special Thanks to Danielle, Edith, Fritz, Luella, Ottilie and Birdie Pelham, Michael Eades, Brian Carter, Joshua Moore, Roger Dabbs, Craig Alvin, Rollum Haas, Justin Neely, Steve Ritchey, Jarred Gardner, Kaiyla Nash, Daniel Backe, Josh Wanamaker, Rory Daigle, Paul and Julia McCullars, Kevin Parton, Patrick Damphier and Jason Bullock.
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Matt & The Watt Gives

Founding member of The Features (active from 1994 to 2016), Matt Pelham's distinctive voice and songwriting style helped to establish the group as "a local institution" by The Nashville Scene. After the band went on hiatus starting in 2016, Pelham began the process of taking some time off, brewing up new compositions and learning to record the ideas in a way he was satisfied with. "Cutting Ties" is the first single from a batch of new songs that explore Pelham's experiences and observations on the world. The artwork is provided by his daughter Edith Pelham, whom Features fans may recall from the cover of The Beginning EP. She sums up the new project perfectly:

Matt and the Watt Gives is the new solo project of long time Features front-dude, Matt Pelham. Since the disbanding of the Features in 2016, Matt has found himself very busy with a large variety of grown-up junk… Now, after eight years, for his sanity and the sanity of the people around him, Matt has decided to write, record, and play music again. — Edith Pelham