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Compost Karaoke | Matt Bachmann

Compost Karaoke by Matt Bachmann, released 12 September 2025 1. Summer's Last Gasp 2. Autumnal Cycle 3. Heavy Step 4. Jazz Mateo 5. TIAGDTD 6. Holy Holy Holy 7. Compost Karaoke 8. Out the Door 9. Dark Flute Reprise 10. Long Road Matt Bachmann has grown obsessed with listening to film scores–getting lost in their striking themes and the incidental pieces that bring the listener from point A to B. It’s no wonder his latest record, Compost Karaoke, sounds like a soundtrack to a film that has yet to be made, like some kind of imaginary documentary of natural decomposition. Weaving elements of propulsive jazz, bedroom chamber music, and 80s Japanese synthwork, Bachmann tells a story that’s as dramatic as it is intimate, beautiful as it is bombastic. Cinematic in sound and structure, Compost Karaoke unfolds like a journey through a honeycomb – each track a unique chamber connected by sonic fibers to the whole. Compact vignettes act as connective tissue, scaffolding the longer repetiti