The Enoch Karpenter Project
We need to talk about Enoch…
Longtime Seattle widescreen indie outfit Half Acre Day‘s Matt Kristiansen, AKA Matt K, now AKA Enoch Karpenter, on the heels of a trauma-based mind control experiment gone horribly, inevitably awry, has released a 6-song solo EP entitled Those Were the Days.
The Enoch Karpenter Project creates lush indie psychedelic folk rock reminiscent of the likes of Andy Shauf, Blitzen Trapper, Wilco, Andrew Bird, The Wrens, The Mountain Goats and Flaming Lips.
As MK’s programmed “alter,” Enoch – a pushy, demanding bastard who names his projects after himself and slaps his own image on album art – has no qualms doing things of which Matt K would never dare dream, which could be very good… or very bad – it’s not for either of them to decide.
The Enoch Karpenter Project
Discography
The Enoch Karpenter Project
So It Goes
now streaming
Ten new psychedelic folk tracks swimming in country influences.
“…beautiful, honest, and straight from the heart. Full of sonic surprises, it brims with hooks and endearing melodies that stay with you long after the music stops.”
– Phil McCoy, Spiral Productions
“I done made a mess
I plain had my fill
I plumb lost my wallet
I clean lost my will
pissed me a river
and swallowed myself whole
bet it all on 21
and lost me one soul”
– Enoch Karpenter, from the song, “The Last Thing I Do”
Credits
- CURTIS VERN – Drums on tracks 1 and 7-10
- AARON MCMULLEN – Drums on track 2, 4 and 5
- ENOCH KARPENTER – Everything else
- All songs written and produced by Enoch Karpenter/Matt Kristiansen
- Recorded, mixed and mastered at MKUltra Studios by Matt Kristiansen
- Album art by Enoch Karpenter
Cassette Culture
Hand Made Tapes
Includes hand stamped/colored/assembled cassette + digital album download.
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The Enoch Karpenter Project
Those Were the Days
“Grand, sweeping, epic chamber pop with striking melodic power and vocal harmonies that would make the most revered singer-songwriters of the 70s weep with envy.”
–Matt Garman, CHIRP Radio
“Break my heart beautiful.”
– Phil McCoy, Spiral Productions
“Those were the days when we’d hit and run, and everyone would drag it to their graves…”
– Enoch Karpenter, from the song, “Those Were the Days”
Credits
- AARON MCMULLEN – Drums on tracks 1-4, 6
- STEVE DAMM – Drums on track 5
- ENOCH KARPENTER – Everything else
- All songs written and produced by Enoch Karpenter/Matt Kristiansen
- Recorded, mixed and mastered at MKUltra Studios by Matt Kristiansen
- Album art by Enoch Karpenter