Matt Lorenz’s vision, manifest in The Suitcase Junket, developed in the tension between the grand and the solitary. Grand in its imagery, sound, and staging. Solitary in its thrift and self-reliance. What instruments he requires, Lorenz builds from scratch and salvage. What parts five players would perform, he performs alone. The spectacle of his one-man set bears constant comparison to legends of showmanship, brilliance, madness, and invention.

The End is New is Lorenz’s sixth full-length album as The Suitcase Junket, his first for Renew Records/BMG.  The sound has become more refined and deeper with each release. Lorenz tours extensively and plans to be back on the road for a waylaid release tour for The End is New in 2021. Lorenz is also a visual artist. In the early years he designed all The Suitcase Junket album art and merchandise and made the music videos generated with his songs. He continues to create the visuals for merchandise, and to produce some of his videos, now with collaborators. He gets very excited about coffee, gardening, bees, dogs, birds, mushrooms, tinctures, making his own wine and maple sugaring season.

Cloudbelly is an intimate and cinematic, Western MA based indie-folk band that has been recognized by the Kerrville New Folk Competition, New Song at Citizen Vinyl, WBUR tiny Desk Roundup, Signature Sounds Record Label, and their most recent release I know I know I know was hailed by the Boston Globe as one of the best records of 2024.  Cloudbelly is singer-songwriter Corey Laitman, electric guitarist Sam Perry, producer, singer-songwriter and bassist Ciarra Fragale, and polymath producer and drummer, Nate Monschein.

The record features everything from hook-heavy indie rock anthems to tender folk ballads, left-of-center art-pop odes to hypnotic, haunting meditations, each one highlighting Laitman’s unique ability to transport listeners into spaces of quiet intimacy, chaotic urgency, and tender revelation – oftentimes in the same breath.

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