Matt Langley – Would You Like To Be Friends?: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day

Silver scroll nominee and APRA award winning song-writer Matt Langley announces the release of his new single, Would You Like To Be Friends?, released today.

Here is the blurb with more:

The single was written a few days after the passing of his friend Martin Phillipps and it is dedicated to him with love and respect.

‘Would you like to be friends?’ was made with Matts long-time collaborator and producer Brett Stanton (Phoenix Foundation, The Cruel Sea, Beasts of Bourbon, Ebony Lamb and many others) and comes a year after his critically acclaimed release ‘As real as you want it to be’ (2024):

‘10 new songs that confirm he hasn’t lost his touch…one of our most thoughtful, articulate songwriters…(the songs) work on multiple levels of consciousness’

Graham Reid,  Elsewhere.com

‘Every song on this album is a finely crafted gem with superb attention to detail. Enjoyment can only increase upon subsequent listens.’ Muzic.NZ

‘Would you like to be friends? is a meditation on death and our shared mortality and is a bittersweet goodbye to a wonderful artist and a unique person. Rest in Peace Marty.

About Matt Langley:

“…one of the smaller but brightest lights on the musical landscape…”

Graham Reid, www.elsewhere.co.nz

Matt Langley is a Silver Scroll nominee and APRA award winning New Zealand song-writer based in Japan.

He has toured and worked with Riki Gooch, Tom Callwood, Andrew Bain, Tom Watson, Bond Street Bridge, Luckless, Brett Stanton, Adam Page, Darren Watson, Lindon Puffin, The Eastern, Caitlin Harnett, Jordie Lane and many others.

Supports for Martin Phillipps, Damien Dempsey, Dave Dobbyn, Head Like Hole, Tiny Ruins, Jeff Lang and others.

Matt’s music has always resisted easy categorisation but has drawn comparisons to Elliot Smith, Jeff Tweedy, Chris Isaak, Grant Lee Phillips, Jeff Buckley, the Beatles, Nick Drake and Neil Finn among others.

Langley’s song writing draws on a wide range of influences from the singer-songwriter, folk, pop, rock, balladry and country traditions to create songs that have unexpected mood shifts and a lyrical sense that is both personal and poetic. He has also collaborated on a suite of songs with renowned New Zealand Poet Laureate and author Brian Turner called ‘Ladders of Rain’.

In 2024 he released ‘As real as you want it to be’, his first full-length album since 2017’s acoustic gem ‘Winterdust’.

‘As real as you want it to be’ sees Matt evolving even further from his folk/troubadour roots into a heady amalgam of baroque pop and psychedelic pop/rock with electronic flourishes and melodic hooks all set against beautifully orchestrated backdrops and heavenly harmonies.’

Winner 2010 APRA Best New Zealand Country Song Award for ‘7:13’ (Featherbones) Nominee 2013 Silver Scroll Award (top twenty) for ‘Sad Sound Good’ (Virginia Avenue) Nominee 2017 Silver Scroll award for ‘Winterdust’ (Winterdust)

Press & highlights:

“It is one of life’s simple pleasures to hear a voice like this” Grant Smithies, Sunday Star Times.

 “This is the music we should be show-casing” Simon Sweetman, Dominion Post.

“Singer-songwriters…seem at times to be rewriting the same song…but here’s one who has songs of his own”. Nick Bollinger, Radio New Zealand.

Listen/contact:

https://mattlangley.bandcamp.com/

https://open.spotify.com/artist/5sk3F…

https://soundcloud.com/matt-langley-306031127

https://music.amazon.com/search/Matt+…

https://music.youtube.com/search?q=ma…

He is also on Apple Music and iTunes.