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Matt Malone is an iconoclastic singer-songwriter hailing from the goldfields region of Victoria, Australia.
Malone is known for his masterful songs containing darkly poetic stories tilled from a life walking the line between faith / despair, love / loneliness, good / evil, sobriety / drug-dependency, musically integrating post-punk, metal + avant-garde influences with the blues, country, folk + gospel tradition, littering his lyrical landscape with references to The Bible, Dostoevsky, Dante, Baudelaire, Flannery O’Connor amongst others.
Matt’s bold baritone / tenebrous imagery have been often compared to Michael Gira, Nick Cave, David Eugene Edwards, Mark Lanegan, Johnny Cash + he has cultivated a cult audience with his intense live performances having shared the stage with the likes of Kim Salmon (Beasts Of Bourbon) + Hugo Race (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds).
2023 saw Malone release his critically acclaimed - For The Term Of My Natural Life (VRS Records, CD / Vinyl), solidifying his status as one of the consummate + underrated singer-songwriters of the Australian underground. He followed it up w/ a small collection of electrified covers called - Made In The Image, Vol. 1, featuring a reinterpretation of the classic ‘I’m Bad Like Jesse James’ which was subsequently shared + endorsed by the John Lee Hooker estate.
PRESS:
'★★★★’
- Sydney Morning Herald
'★★★★’
- Backseat Mafia
“What a powerful rendition of the John Lee Hooker classic I’m Bad Like Jesse James from bluesman and twang artisan - Matt Malone… I like that!”
- Tower Of Song, Double J
"Matt Malone & The Holy Spirits channel the darkness, the shadows... you'll recognize some Bad Seeds vibes in here and I'm all for it."
- Henry Wagons, Double J
"Malone mines life's dark shadows in a similar way to Nick Cave or foreign antecedents like Merle Haggard and Bob Dylan. It's an album of singular vision, unrelenting in its intensity..."
- Rhythms Magazine
"Matt Malone & The Holy Spirits sound like a Ennio Morricone score for a Cormac McCarthy movie.”
- Americana UK
"Whatever juju, alchemy or disturbed darkness that made Jim Morrison put on a pair of leather trousers & shock the world out of its apathy… Matt has got it!"
- Kim Salmon (The Scientists, Beasts Of Bourbon, The Surrealists)
"Matt Malone & The Holy Spirits are stripped and bare in the outlaw country tradition, but with the menace and slow stabbing guitar of Rowland S. Howard."
- Samuel Fell (Rolling Stone)
"Matt Malone resonates with echoes of Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen and the greats... his latest single embodies his unique style and lyrical genius."
- Anthony De Filipis
Malone is known for his masterful songs containing darkly poetic stories tilled from a life walking the line between faith / despair, love / loneliness, good / evil, sobriety / drug-dependency, musically integrating post-punk, metal + avant-garde influences with the blues, country, folk + gospel tradition, littering his lyrical landscape with references to The Bible, Dostoevsky, Dante, Baudelaire, Flannery O’Connor amongst others.
Matt’s bold baritone / tenebrous imagery have been often compared to Michael Gira, Nick Cave, David Eugene Edwards, Mark Lanegan, Johnny Cash + he has cultivated a cult audience with his intense live performances having shared the stage with the likes of Kim Salmon (Beasts Of Bourbon) + Hugo Race (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds).
2023 saw Malone release his critically acclaimed - For The Term Of My Natural Life (VRS Records, CD / Vinyl), solidifying his status as one of the consummate + underrated singer-songwriters of the Australian underground. He followed it up w/ a small collection of electrified covers called - Made In The Image, Vol. 1, featuring a reinterpretation of the classic ‘I’m Bad Like Jesse James’ which was subsequently shared + endorsed by the John Lee Hooker estate.
PRESS:
'★★★★’
- Sydney Morning Herald
'★★★★’
- Backseat Mafia
“What a powerful rendition of the John Lee Hooker classic I’m Bad Like Jesse James from bluesman and twang artisan - Matt Malone… I like that!”
- Tower Of Song, Double J
"Matt Malone & The Holy Spirits channel the darkness, the shadows... you'll recognize some Bad Seeds vibes in here and I'm all for it."
- Henry Wagons, Double J
"Malone mines life's dark shadows in a similar way to Nick Cave or foreign antecedents like Merle Haggard and Bob Dylan. It's an album of singular vision, unrelenting in its intensity..."
- Rhythms Magazine
"Matt Malone & The Holy Spirits sound like a Ennio Morricone score for a Cormac McCarthy movie.”
- Americana UK
"Whatever juju, alchemy or disturbed darkness that made Jim Morrison put on a pair of leather trousers & shock the world out of its apathy… Matt has got it!"
- Kim Salmon (The Scientists, Beasts Of Bourbon, The Surrealists)
"Matt Malone & The Holy Spirits are stripped and bare in the outlaw country tradition, but with the menace and slow stabbing guitar of Rowland S. Howard."
- Samuel Fell (Rolling Stone)
"Matt Malone resonates with echoes of Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen and the greats... his latest single embodies his unique style and lyrical genius."
- Anthony De Filipis
