MATTHEW HH
IS AN ARTIST WITH A WEBSITE
ABOUT
Matthew Halbert-Howen learned by doing. He played a supporting role in other people’s music, performing in bands, contributing to projects, and helping bring other artists’ visions to life for the last 15 years. In 2024, he stepped away from those collaborations to focus on his own music. What began as raw demos in the Spring became a full album by the Fall, recorded, produced, and mixed in his basement. Along the way, he found his own voice, singing, writing, and performing, while friends contributed to production, instrumentation, and writing, making the project a collaborative yet deeply personal endeavor.
Mornings is an intimate and expansive record that explores memory, love, change, and impermanence. The songs move between hushed introspection, the voice close to the mic, sparse instrumentation, and textured, energetic arrangements. Lyrically, it reflects on the subtle passage of time, fleeting moments of intimacy, nostalgia for the past, and the bittersweet nature of life and relationships. Themes of personal growth, self-discovery, and presence run through the album, often anchored in vivid sensory experiences and small moments of everyday beauty. The record balances melancholy and hope, tension and comfort, longing and joy, ultimately capturing the wonder of simply being alive.
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I want to believe all my dreams
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