Matthew J Tow

Australian Psychedelic Rock Musician

Matthew J Tow is a singer/songwriter from Sydney, Australia. Matthew’s career began in the early 1990′s when he formed the psyche/pop band Drop City in Sydney, who were signed to Red Eye Records and released 5 albums from 1993 to 2000. In 1994 he formed the experimental collective Colorsound, who released five albums. Next, Tow headed to the U.S. where he got in touch with his old friend Anton Newcombe of The Brian Jonestown Massacre, briefly joining the group in 2003 as a touring rhythm guitarist and collaborating with Newcombe by writing 2 songs for the ‘And This Is Our Music’ album. During this time, Tow embraced the kaleidoscopic sounds and textures being explored by many bands in the psychedelic underground of the West Coast scene, and blended it with his own pop sensibility to create The Lovetones, releasing five albums, touring the United States with the BJM in 2003, touring the U.S and Europe again with the BJM in 2005, and appearing at SXSW in 2006. In early 2013 Matthew released his first solo record under his own name ‘The Way Of Things’ (XEMU Records), which was recorded over a year in Portland U.S and Australia and produced by Collin Hegna (Federale) and Ryan Carlson Van Kriedt (The Asteroid #4, Dead Skeletons). His album ‘Shadows' Reign’ (XEMU Records) was released in 2016.