Jared Mattson of the Mattson 2 has teamed up with Ruban Nielson of Unknown Mortal Orchestra for a collaborative album called FEAR. The LP arrives next month on Jagjaguwar, but for now you can hear the lead single "AMERICAN EAGLE."
The two musicians met in 2024 after crossing paths on the internet and being fans of each other's music. They recorded FEAR in June of that year in just a couple of days in Palm Springs. Mattson says about the process:
We imagined the music living in in-between places — old motels with buzzing vacancy signs, abandoned gas stations at dusk, vast parking lots lit by sodium lamps where engines idle and lives briefly overlap. Spaces built for movement, not comfort. Bleak, anonymous, quietly human. Music that could sit inside that loneliness without trying to fix it — beauty carrying a low hum of danger underneath, calm without anesthesia.
Watch the Mark Francis-directed video for "AMERICAN EAGLE" below.
TRACKLIST:
01 "HIGH T"
02 "RIVER RAFTING"
03 "TESTAROSSA"
04 "AMERICAN EAGLE"
05 "WEDGIE"
06 "TOUCHDOWN"
07 "RAZOR BLADE"
FEAR is out 6/5 via Jagjaguwar. Pre-order it here.
