Matt the electrician

Matt the Electrician is Matthew Sever, a quirky, sincere folk/pop singer songwriter

based in Austin, TX. He has self-released 10 studio albums, and 2 live CDs since

1998. Matt moved to Austin, TX from the West Coast in 1996 to pursue music full

time. He regularly tours all over the world, specifically The US, Canada, Western

Europe and Japan. His songs have been featured on Network TV shows, in feature

length movies, and in TV commercials. He regularly plays festivals, theaters,

nightclubs, and house concerts, and will continue to do so until he cannot.

He has performed most recently at the Newport Folk Festival, Austin City Limits

Festival, Travelers’ Rest Festival, Old Settler's Music Festival, Winnipeg Folk Festival,

Sisters Folk Festival, Kerrville Folk Festival, High Sierra Music Festival, and Tondr

Folk Festival in Denmark.

Matt the Electrician’s 11th studio album, “The Ocean Knocked Me Down” was

released into the world on February 2nd, 2024. For the new project, Matt returned to

his “home studio” of sorts, The Aerie, in Austin, TX, (owned and operated by Mark

Addison) where Matt had recorded 4 of his previous records, including 2009’s

“Animal Boy”. And like that record, Matt and Mark played nearly all the

instruments on the new record. There are some special guest musicians as well,

including MtE regulars, Seela, Jon Greene, and Stephanie Macias. Plus, first timers

Carrie Rodriguez, Luke Jacobs and Oliver Steck. To call this a pandemic record might

be slightly misguided, even though most of the songs were in fact written during 2020 and 2021. But the vibe of the record is upbeat, and

weird, and fun, and sometimes sad, but hopeful, and occasionally poignant, and silly, and hopeful, but ridiculous, and also hopeful. You

might think that’s a lot of vibes, but there are 16 songs on the record, because we’ve all been through a lot, and so Matt figured that, this

time, everyone deserved a few more songs and a few more vibes than usual.