Released: 30/05/25
Drag City and Yoga Records present Undercurrents (2025), Matthew Young’s latest album, blending outsider music with accessible sounds across genres. Composed over decades, it weaves electronic landscapes, pastoral folk, and abstract piano and synthesis. Highlights include marimba-driven opener “Reflexion,” IBM mainframe-generated tones from 1976, and heartfelt vocal settings of Marion Lineaweaver’s poems. The album’s diverse sonic palette—from algorithmic electronica to synthpop hints and hammered dulcimer—makes Undercurrents a compelling, genre-spanning triumph.