Mattiel - Jeff Goldblum Video

On the same day that Mattiel announced news about their third album, 'Georgia Gothic', the band dropped a video for it's lead single, 'Jeff Goldblum'. 'Georgia Gothic', Mattiel's follow up to 2019's 'Satis Factory', will be released via Heavenly Recordings on March 18th next year. 

'Jeff Goldblum' was inspired by lead singer Mattiel Brown's "very real" crush as she explained in a recent press statement - "Well, my crush on Jeff Goldblum is very real. He inspired the words - but this is more of a dream where a Jeff look-a-like meets me in a bathroom. Nothing beats an 80’s Jeff Goldblum. Incredible looks and charm. If anything, I hope if he somehow hears the song, he loves it as much as we do." 

The lead track from Mattiel's third album is also the opening track on the 11 song album that also contains 'Blood In The Yolk', 'Cultural Criminal' and 'How It Ends'. It was recorded by Mattiel Brown and guitarist Jonah Swilley in North Atlanta in "Some faraway place that just Jonah and I could go where there would be no distractions, nothing else going on, and we could turn everything off and only focus on writing songs."

Brown has said that Mattiel's latest album is more of a collaborative one than either their self-titled debut from 2017 or the follow-up, 'Satis Factory'. She has said that - "This was the first time we made a point to just be together and work out ideas in the same room. That was the initial intention ... it was about learning what each other wanted to accomplish on a sonic level, and then just trying different things out." 

Mattiel's home state of Georgia has definitely inspired the new music that the pair have made with both band members concurring that it has, more than ever before, had an influence on them. Brown explains that -  "We haven’t really highlighted where we’re from in the past two records, even though those were also written in Georgia. There’s so much great art and great music that’s come from Georgia, from all different types of genres and all over the state — but take R. E. M. and OutKast: there’s this weirdness that I can’t really put my finger on."

Mattiel's "weirdness" has manifested itself brilliantly on their latest track - 'Jeff Goldblum', and the entertaining video can't help but make you smile, as Mattiel Brown sings "He came and met me in the bathroom, A little like a younger Jeff Goldblum."