Matt Bachmann announces new album Compost Karaoke, shares music video for "TIAGDTD" Posted 15 Jul 2025
New York-based composer & multi-instrumentalist Matt Bachmann is back with his first new music since 2021's Dream Logic. Compost Karaoke, an entirely new album of "bedroom chamber music" featuring contributions from James Krivchenia (Big Thief), Derek Baron (Reading Group Records), & Jeff Tobias (Modern Nature, Sunwatchers), is Bachmann's most adventurous, engaging & fully realized music to date. Richly decorated with horns, woodwinds, percussion, synthesizers, vibraphones, and guitar pedal sonic reimagining,
Compost Karaoke is a musical habitat wholly unique, yet nodding to
Bachmann’s guiding stars—Ryuichi Sakamoto, Natural Information Society,
and RJ Miller, to name a few.
In advance of Compost Karaoke's September 12th release, Orindal Records is proud to share the album's first single & music video, "TIAGDTD."
Foxy Digitalis premiered "TIAGDTD" yesterday, describing it as "a slow hallucination, spiraling inward with a strange grace. Matt
Bachmann builds a rhythmic floor that feels both meditative and
unsteady, where Derek Baron’s minimalist drums and James Krivchenia’s
congas form a kind of twitchy heartbeat under clouds of bass clarinet
and flickering synth debris. The track hovers in that space between
stillness and motion, tension and trance. The video leans into that
ambiguity, with Bachmann and Sophia Treanor moving in loose, mirrored
choreography. Green spandex limbs lock in poses that shift from hypnotic
to uncanny. It’s a little like Isabella Rossellini’s Green Porno
by way of dream logic: odd, tender, a little absurd, and entirely
mesmerizing. Everything floats just slightly off-axis but never loses
its pull."
From Matt Bachmann:
"TIAGDTD"'s music video was inspired by a behavioral tic of my late father, who would rub his hands together and grimace as he watched television. The video is an attempt to inhabit the alien behavior as an attempt to understand it. It was amazing to collaborate with Adam Baron-Bloch, Sophia Treanor and V Haddad who each brought their beautiful creative selves to help make something beyond what I could have dreamed of.
"TIAGDTD" is an acronym for a Klingon phrase, "Today is a Good Day to Die." The Klingons are the warrior race within the Star Trek universe, valuing honor above all. To Klingons, there is nothing more honorable than dying in battle, hence the phrase. A central tension for Worf, one of the main Klingon characters, is adapting to society within the federation of planets; Klingons are such a spirited race (drinking blood wine, fighting, listening to opera) and to live within the federation's society, Worf has to detach from his culture. I would tear up when Worf would say "Today is a Good Day to Die" because it felt like he was finally permitted to be his full self. I wrote this song while watching Deep Space 9 during the pandemic and it was partially conceived as an ode to Worf.
"TIAGDTD" is now streaming everwhere.
Compost Karaoke is available for pre-order on cassette & digital formats HERE.