Matthew E. White announces new album with opening track "Genuine Hesitation"

"Genuine Hesitation" is the first taster of White's K Bay album, and follows his Broken Mirror: A Selfie Reflection joint album with Lonnie Holley that dropped in April.

K Bay is produced by White, and was recorded at various locations including his Kensington Avenue home studio K Bay, Richmond’s Montrose Recording and Spacebomb Studio.

White says of the record and lead song, "For me, one of the most exciting production techniques from this record was this idea where I’d record the song twice. First, in a more traditional, band-in-the-room, work out the parts and sounds, nail it, kind of way. Secondly, I would distill the concept of the song one way or another into an instrumental composition. I had a much larger band (based off of Miles Davis’s On The Corner bands) play this kind of new-music/improvisational piece at the same tempo as I had recorded the first, more ‘normal’ take. The goal was to be able to cut across between the two pieces, and/or layer them and have them fit together in wild ways. To a large degree it worked, which was pretty exciting for me. The intro to "Genuine Hesitation" is an excerpt from the much longer improvisation based instrumental."

K Bay marks White's first solo album in six years, following 2015's Fresh Blood.

Tracklist:

1. Genuine Hesitation
2. Electric
3. Nested
4. Take Your Time (And Find That Orange To Squeeze)
5. Let’s Ball
6. Fell Like An Ax
7. Only in America / When The Curtains of the Night are Peeled Back (feat. Joseph “JoJo” Clarke)
8. Never Had It Better
9. Judy
10. Shine A Light For Me
11. Hedged In Darkness