Matt Jasper Welcomes You To Marchin’ Inn – A Folk-Pop Suite of Puns, Posts, and Personalities
SEATTLE, WA – Folk-pop songwriter and lo-fi provocateur Matt Jasper returns with Marchin’ Inn, a vibrant and peculiar collection of eight songs weaving together humor, heartbreak, and the millennial condition. With acoustic textures, homegrown production, and a penchant for the unexpected, Jasper’s latest LP arrives March 3, 2023 on For The Records, perfectly timed to “march” into spring with wit and warmth.
Equal parts dad jokes and digital malaise, Marchin’ Inn draws its charm from Jasper’s fascination with conversational oddities and the absurdities of modern life. With musical roots in early Sufjan Stevens, Jens Lekman, and Loudon Wainwright III, the record plays like a quiet comedy special filtered through a four-track recorder. Tracks like “The Endless Scroll” tap into lo-fi hip-hop aesthetics while “Middle Man” and “Swiped Bags” bring out acoustic pop melodies and lyrical miniatures reminiscent of a folk Wes Anderson soundtrack.
Marchin’ Inn is a cozy yet sharply observant collection of modern folk songs, perfect for fans of quirky storytelling and bedroom pop authenticity. From the marching-band wordplay of “Marching In Like A Man” to the existential doomscrolling of “The Endless Scroll” and the tender sketch of a post-breakup gift in “Sorry Carly, A Gift,” Jasper proves once again that he’s as much a cultural commentator as a singer-songwriter. This is folk for people who tweet too much, fall in love too easily, and still make time for a good pun.
“I wanted to make a record that felt like a month-long fever dream—the kind you wake up from wondering if that joke you told at work was brilliant or just awkward,” says Jasper. “These songs started as bits, riffs, and doodles on lunch breaks. Some are about people I know, some are about people I used to be, and some are just about March—the weirdest month. Marchin’ Inn is a little crooked, a little sweet, and definitely written in pencil.”
Tracklist:
Marching In Like A Man
Pete, & Re: Pete
The Endless Scroll (millennial woes)
Middle Man
That He Did
Sorry Carly, A Gift
Swiped Bags
Manic Pixie
Listen, laugh, and loiter a while — Marchin’ Inn opens its doors March 3rd.
For more info: fortherecords.com | mattjasper.com
credits
released March 5, 2021
All songs written, performed, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Matt Jasper.
Instrumentation: vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, banjo, ukulele, drum programming on “The Endless Scroll.”