Mattie Konig - broadly proggish stuff from the UK

Greetings! My name's Mattie, and I'm a 20 year old transgender musician from the UK who has been creating music since 2013, primarily specialising in keyboards but also tackling vocals, guitar, percussion, and other instruments. My songs cover everything from ancient history to popular culture, from my own personal struggles to wider issues in the world at large (my music is progressive in more ways than one). I am influenced by a diverse range of artists, ranging from classic symphonic proggers (Yes, Genesis, Camel) to left-field indies (Animal Collective, Sufjan Stevens, Arca) to avant-garde experimentalists (Coil, Scott Walker, Aphex Twin, Mr Bungle). Although I have made and produced many EPs, singles, and other odd bits and bobs over the years, the main heart of my creative output lies in my series of four full-length albums:

• My self-titled debut (March 2016), a record that was heavily indebted to classic seventies prog and was originally released under my pre-transition name;
• Here Comes A Special Boy? (September 2016), a more energetic release that took inspiration from contemporary indie artists, and focused on my experiences discovering my true gender identity;
• Cerulean Impulses (April 2017), a dark, experimental and very personal record that dealt with a multitude of issues happening in my life at the time;
• Light and Shade (April 2018), my latest full release and what I'd consider my strongest and most quintissentially me album yet; a return to the textures and song structures of my first two records, but with maturity and lyrical development gained from the third.

Here Comes A Special Boy? was featured on GoldFlakePaint's list of essential Bandcamp albums by trans artists, and tracks from my albums have been played on Thames estuary radio station Ship Full of Bombs.

Hope you enjoy my music, and I look forward to spending some quality time here! (I hope to post a similar introduction under "suggest new bands and artists", even if it'd mostly be the same general content as this post )

Bandcamp (for full albums): mattiekonig.bandcamp.com

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/mattiekonigmusic

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mattiekonigmusic

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzJPbeID8pA5SroICfFpe-g

Ko-fi (for donations): https://ko-fi.com/mattiekonig

Hrychu wrote: Cool stuff. Very experimental. Also, I dig the cartoony artwork.

Thanks! Cartoons are definitely one of the influences of my overall aesthetic, especially recent and more left-of-field ones (and I hope one day I'll get to have an animated music video...)