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Matt Alfano, Pampa, Best

Conor Byrne Pub

DESCRIPTION Matt Alfano is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based out of Seattle, WA. After graduating Berklee College of Music in 2019, Matt has embarked on a solo career that fuses his love of 60s and 80s pop with modern indie rock sensibilities. He released his debut album, Matt Alfano Presents: An Album, in 2024, following up his EP from the previous year. Matt has also appeared as a sideman for several Boston and Seattle-based artists. ___________________________________________________________ With Pampa, Moon Baillie has found his family, and with "In the Flatlands" the group has found their voice. The members of the band have developed an extrasensory understanding of their strengths and weaknesses, a mind-meld that finds them enhancing the song ideas with depth and nuance. The album's lead single, "The Battery is the Lullaby" meanders gently at first, Moon Baillie's and Kerrick Olson's guitars swaying while Nate Rogers' keys chime delicately in the background before launching into a gorgeous crescendo—particularly pretty for a breakup song. "OK OK" finds the band applying luscious sparkle to one of Moon Baillie's earliest demos (and playing harmonica through a Leslie speaker, courtesy producer Johnny Goss). Bassist John Carlson and drummer Steve Lykken drive "Dancing Slow" with a languid but insistent rhythm, its heart-swelling tension perhaps the clearest example of Pampa's haunting power. Sung in Spanish, "Entre Balas y Batman"—"Between Bullets and Batman"—closes out the album with a barn-burning demonstration of the band's compelling balance of restraint and ferocity.