Matt Simons

Matt Simons has had an epiphany. In November of 2022, months after a massively successful American and European world tour following the release of Identity Crisis, the American songwriter’s latest studio album, lighting struck. Working closely with producer John Samuel and fellow songwriter Chris Ayer, they collaborated to produce the song ‘Twin’. “It just sent shockwaves through my whole system,” says Simons. “I felt so inspired after that.”

Matt went on the road for a month and sat with it. When he returned to the studio in January, he wrote 14 songs –“the rest of the album, basically”- in two months. “It just sounds like something I wanna listen to, which is always the music that I try to make,” he says. “I feel like this is another step in my journey of trying to sound like myself. And I feel like with every album I get a little bit closer and closer to that. This is just the next step on that path.”

Matt Simons has a lot to reflect on. He is coming off a decade of massive success- particularly throughout continental Europe- that all began with the placement of the track ‘With You’ on a Dutch television show. It didn’t take long before the follow-up single ‘Catch & Release’ picked up steam and the whole of Europe and many more territories all over the world knew his name. When the pandemic hit, he relocated back to his native state of California, from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.

Born in Palo Alto, Matt released his first studio album, Pieces, in 2012, and has followed up with four more, most recently Identity Crisis in 2022. After ten years of recording and touring, he found himself searching for inspiration. The business had changed so much since he first began, and he wanted to say something new, something fresh. “You know, as a songwriter, you always think that after you write the next song, you’re never gonna write a good one again. And usually it only lasts a couple of months. This time it lasted a couple of years.”