Mat Kerekes

Release Date: 08/05/2022
Format: LP
Label: Wax Bodega
Release type: Red Vinyl LP Pressing. AUTOGRAPHED.

Mat Kerekes pulled Nova, the title of his upcoming solo LP, from two places: an early 2000s PC game and the state where he's living. He's been splitting time between his hometown Toledo, Ohio and Woodbridge in north Virginia-NoVa to locals. A re release of the fantasy hack-and-slash game Diablo 2 brought the second iteration with a character's special attack called 'frost nova.' The stars had aligned: Nova would be the next record. Nova isn't an essential, high-brow distillation of a theme, angle, or topic. It's just good, fun music, plain and simple. In an industry full of on-the-nose branding, marketing, and sales of ideas, identities, and experiences, Nova feels like the anti-record; it feels honest and real.

1. Introducing
   
2. Danger
   
3. Look, I'm a Famous Actor
   
4. And It Might've Been
   
5. Daniel Fang
   
6. Art of Living
   
7. The Cool Kids
   
8. Parachute
   
9. Honky Tonk
   
10. Six Twenty
    
11. You'll Be Selling Out Theaters
    
12. Farewell, Frankenstein