Matt Coasta Announces North American Tour + New Album SANTA ROSA FANGS Out Now

Southern California-based singer/songwriter Matt Costa's fifth full-length album-and first in five years-Santa Rosa Fangs is out now on Dangerbird Records and available for purchase/streaming at http://radi.al/SantaRosaFangs.

Costa is continuing to tour in support of the record, confirming a run of North American dates with critically acclaimed artist Tennis. Tickets are available at http://mattcosta.com/tour, see below for a complete list of dates.

In addition to the fall tour with Tennis, Costa will be on the road this September performing a series of intimate, fan-hosted house shows throughout the Southwest in which he tells the stories behind the new record and plays songs spanning his entire career. "The Road to Santa Rosa Fangs" tour is seeking hosts now, see http://www.mattcosta.com/livingrooms for additional information.

Costa also recently premiered the self-directed video for the album track "Windy Smile," watch/share it at https://youtu.be/aQ1FXKAlhgI.

Santa Rosa Fangs continues to receive extensive critical praise:

"[Costa] distills half a century of predecessors into a potent pop pastiche...Santa Rosa Fangs is filled with fetching melodies. There are also hooks galore, from the choir of Costas singing on the piano-pounding title cut to the repetition of the protagonist's name in 'Sharon.' Even the tambourines are catchy."-Associated Press

"Santa Rosa Fangs [is]... one of the most ambitious projects Costa has taken on."-Billboard

"There's sheer exuberance radiating through many of these songs-an unfettered enthusiasm that makes nearly every number a sudden standout...Costa has found his own voice and all the additives needed to set him up for stardom."-Relix

"Costa [has a] knack for writing timeless, accessible pop/rock songs with enough of a bent to keep music snobs from getting their torn-and-tattered T.Rex T-shirts in a bunch."-MAGNET

"Shimmering, melodically sweet, and tragic, Santa Rosa Fangs is an ambitious set, with songs that nonetheless go down easy."-AllMusic

"This marks [Costa's] first album in five years and could very well be the one to bring him the love and attention he so richly deserves after years of honing his craft."-NPR/KXT FM

"Concepts and themes aside, Santa Rosa Fangs is a sumptuous sounding album."-AXS

"Costa's knack for composing layers of soft psychedelic sounds stapled together with songwriting reflective of his big heart is as evident as it ever has been."-PopMatters

Produced by Peter Matthew Bauer (The Walkmen) and Nick Stumpf (French Kicks), the songs on Santa Rosa Fangs center around a fictional young woman named Sharon, her two brothers Ritchie and Tony, and their story of love, loss and coming of age in California, replete with long distance love affairs and nostalgic romances. Rather than setting out to create a specific narrative, Costa began noticing a theme in the new songs as he wrote them: an unconscious embodiment of the surroundings in which he himself had grown up.

"I've interwoven my own stories into a fictional idea of what Santa Rosa Fangs is, from my own time spent living in Northern and Southern California and years driving up and down the coast, seeing the landscape and where life can pull you within one state," Costa explains. "It's the characters' story and my story, too, contemporary but still tortured by the past. It's a window into a time period but spoken as if it's the present. The beauty of love and loss doesn't have a date on it; it's timeless."

Santa Rosa Fangs follows Costa's 2013 self-titled effort, which was hailed by MTV News as "a full-blown orchestral-pop affair, with strings and horns urging the songs to grand heights and dramatic dynamic shifts," while American Songwriter included it in their Top 50 Albums of 2013, noting that "everything is meticulously arranged, often with strings, horns and layered backing singing. They effortlessly capture a sweet, innocent, truly captivating folk pop whimsy that never seems forced, pretentious or outdated, even with its obvious reverence for an earlier time."

In the early 2000s Costa was on his way to becoming a professional skateboarder when he was derailed by a serious injury. He changed his focus to his songwriting and an early demo found its way to No Doubt's Tom Dumont, who ultimately produced Costa's early recordings. In the time since Costa's last full-length record he has kept busy by soundtracking the award-winning documentary Orange Sunshine and independently releasing a series of EPs.

MATT COSTA, SANTA ROSA FANGS

1. I Remember It Well
2. Sharon
3. Grudge
4. Pacific Grove
5. Santa Rosa Fangs
6. Time Tricks
7. Coming Around
8. Ritchie
9. Phosphorescent Letter
10. Windy Smile
11. Real Love
12. I Remember It Well #2

MATT COSTA LIVE

July 27 Hemet, CA Derby's Bar & Grill
August 1 Huntington Beach, CA Gallagher's
August 8 Boulder, CO FMQB Free Outdoor Stage on the Hill*
August 16 Dana Point, CA Bluff Park at Salt Creek Beach
October 4 Santa Fe, NM Meow Wolf†
October 5 Phoenix, AZ Crescent Ballroom†
October 6 Los Angeles, CA Troubadour†
October 7 Solana Beach, CA Belly Up Tavern†
October 9 San Francisco, CA The Chapel†
October 11 Portland, OR Doug Fir Lounge†
October 12 Seattle, WA The Crocodile†
October 13 Vancouver, BC Biltmore Cabaret†
October 15 Missoula, MT Top Hat Lounge†
October 16 Salt Lake City, UT Metro Music Hall†
November 6 Minneapolis, MN Cedar Cultural Center†
November 7 Chicago, IL Thalia Hall†
November 9 Toronto, ON Long Boat Hall†
November 10 Montreal, QC Bar Le Ritz†
November 11 Cambridge, MA The Sinclair†
November 13 New York, NY Le Poisson Rouge†
November 14 Washington, DC The Black Cat†
November 16 Atlanta, GA Aisle 5†
November 17 Birmingham, AL Saturn†
November 18 Nashville, TN 3rd & Lindsley†

* with Rayland Baxter
† with Tennis

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