New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Southern California-based singer/songwriter Matt Costa's fifth full-length album-and first in five years-Santa Rosa Fangs is out now on Dangerbird Records and available for purchase/streaming at https://radi.al/SantaRosaFangs. Costa is now premiering the new video for the track "Time Tricks," watch/share it via Top40-Charts.com!
Costa is continuing to tour in support of the record, confirming an intimate, fan-hosted "The Road to
Santa Rosa Fangs" living room tour this
September in which he tells the stories behind the new record and plays songs spanning his entire career. Tickets are on sale now at https://www.mattcosta.com/livingrooms.
Costa will also tour North
America later this fall with Tennis. Tickets are available at https://mattcosta.com/tour, see below for a complete list of dates for both tours.
Additionally, the special Novella Edition of
Santa Rosa Fangs-a digital-only reissue of the critically acclaimed record-is due October 5 via Dangerbird Records. The new edition features new narration, never-before-heard b-sides and interstitial tracks from Costa, fleshing out the album's story of a fictional young woman named Sharon, her two brothers
Ritchie and Tony, and their tale of love, loss and coming of age in California, replete with long distance love affairs and nostalgic romances. Pre-order the Novella Edition athttps://smarturl.it/MattCostaNovella.
Rather than setting out to create a specific narrative for the new record, Costa began noticing a theme in the new songs as he wrote them: an unconscious embodiment of the surroundings in which he himself had grown up.
"I've interwoven my own stories into a fictional idea of what
Santa Rosa Fangs is, from my own time spent living in Northern and Southern California and years driving up and down the coast, seeing the landscape and where life can pull you within one state," Costa explains. "It's the characters' story and my story, too, contemporary but still tortured by the past. It's a window into a time period but spoken as if it's the present. The beauty of love and loss doesn't have a date on it; it's timeless."
Produced by
Peter Matthew Bauer (The Walkmen) and Nick Stumpf (French Kicks),Santa Rosa Fangs follows Costa's 2013 self-titled effort, which was hailed by MTV News as "a full-blown orchestral-pop affair, with strings and horns urging the songs to grand heights and dramatic dynamic shifts," while American Songwriter included it in their Top 50 Albums of 2013, noting that "everything is meticulously arranged, often with strings, horns and layered backing singing. They effortlessly capture a sweet, innocent, truly captivating folk pop whimsy that never seems forced, pretentious or outdated, even with its obvious reverence for an earlier time."
In the early 2000s Costa was on his way to becoming a professional skateboarder when he was derailed by a serious injury. He changed his focus to his songwriting and an early demo found its way to No Doubt's Tom Dumont, who ultimately produced Costa's early recordings. In the time since Costa's last full-length record he has kept busy by soundtracking the award-winning documentary
Orange Sunshine and independently releasing a series of EPs.
MATT COSTA LIVE
September 12 Austin, TX Cactus Cafe*
September 13 Cypress, TX Private residence/living room*
September 14 Dallas, TX Private residence/living room*
September 15 Portland, OR Private residence/living room*
September 16 Reedsport, OR Private residence/living room*
September 21 Vista, CA Private residence/living room*
September 22 Hemet, CA Private residence/living room*
September 25 Los Angeles, CA Private residence/living room*
September 26 Ojai, CA Private residence/living room*
September 27 Sacramento, CA Private residence/living room*
October 4 Santa Fe, NM Meow Wolf†
October 5 Phoenix, AZ Crescent Ballroom†
October 6 Los Angeles, CA Troubadour†
October 7 Solana Beach, CA Belly Up Tavern†
October 9 San Francisco, CA The Chapel†
October 11 Portland, OR Doug Fir Lounge†
October 12 Seattle, WA The Crocodile†
October 13 Vancouver, BC Biltmore Cabaret†
October 15 Missoula, MT Top Hat Lounge†
October 16 Salt Lake City, UT Metro
Music Hall†
October 28 Los Angeles, CA Rock 'n' Roll L.A. Half Marathon
November 6 Minneapolis, MN Cedar Cultural Center†
November 7 Chicago, IL Thalia Hall†
November 9 Toronto, ON Long Boat Hall†
November 10 Montreal, QC Bar Le Ritz†
November 11 Cambridge, MA The Sinclair†
November 13 New York, NY Le Poisson Rouge†
November 14 Washington, DC The
Black Cat†
November 16 Atlanta, GA Aisle 5†
November 17 Birmingham, AL Saturn†
November 18 Nashville, TN 3rd & Lindsley†
* "The Road to
Santa Rosa Fangs" Tour
† with Tennis
