Matthew Ryan Brings Boxers October 14th

ARTIST DIRECT PREMIERES NEW VIDEO FROM MATTHEW RYAN
FOR THE SONG BOXERS TODAY

NEW ALBUM BOXERS OUT ON OCTOBER 14

”Everything about this album is right”– PopDose

Last winter, Matthew Ryan set up shop at Applehead Studios in Woodstock, New York with a small team: producer and multi-instrumentalist Kevin Salem, The Gaslight Anthem’s Brian Fallon on guitar, longtime collaborator Brian Bequette on bass, Joe Magistro (The Black Crowes, Rich Robinson) on drums, and Ryan himself on vocals and guitars. They hunkered down to do the work of making a loud, rattling rock album. The outcome is the moving, honest and unapologetic BOXERS out on October 14.

“It was a beautiful brotherhood,” Ryan says.

“There’s a lot I could say about Matthew Ryan, I mean for starters, the guy pretty much saved my headspace. Working with him he really became a dear and trusted friend. I’m honored to have been a part of his newest record!” — The Gaslight Anthem’s Brian Fallon

”Matthew Ryan pulls on our heartstrings as he does the strings of his guitar” – No Depression

BOXERS features the working poor in “Suffer No More,” the ruthless ethos of pure capitalists in “We Are Libertines,” and the two together in “Heaven’s Hill.” Ryan finds the humanity, scars and sneers and all, in each character. From the silvery burst of feedback that opens the record, to the dissolving vérité of the last notes of the final song, BOXERS is Ryan’s growling missive in the modern wilderness, a defiant howl against complacency, despair and greed.

“Mainstream success be damned, Ryan and his raspy vocals roll on with his latest release ‘Boxers.’ On the new album the Chester, Pennsylvanian continues to spin tales with the best of them” – Innocent Words

His 1997 A&M Records debut, May Day, has become revered as a seminal alt-country record, with subsequent releases including East Autumn Grin, Vs The Silver State, In The Dusk of Everything and From a Late Night High Rise and Dear Lover have cemented his place as a respected songwriter and performer.

Over a career that spans nearly two decades, the prolific Matthew Ryan has refined the raucous poetry of his songwriting, creating his own working class aesthetic where beauty and darkness often trade punches from line to line—Intelligent, minimalist, and always thought provoking
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