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Achtung Matty
Singer-Songwriter · 2021 · 12 tracks · 46m

Achtung Matty

Matt Nathanson

A hushed, acoustic reimagining of U2's 1991 masterpiece. Stripped of industrial grit, these versions favor intimacy, warmth, and late-night vulnerability.

November 18, 2021 · Acrobat Records (2)

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Achtung Matty is a masterclass in the art of the deconstructed cover. While the source material was defined by its industrial noise, irony, and stadium-sized ambition, Matt Nathanson peels back every layer of artifice to find the folk songs hidden at the core of U2's Berlin-era masterpiece. It sounds like a private performance in a dimly lit room, where the only things that matter are the weight of the words and the resonance of the wooden guitar body. It is a quiet, reverent conversation with the past.

Tracklist · 12 Tracks · 46m
01
Zoo Station
3:30
02
Even Better Than the Real Thing
3:03
03
One
4:38
04
Until the End of the World
2:41
05
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
5:13
06
So Cruel
5:45
07
The Fly
3:24
08
Mysterious Ways
2:56
09
Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World
3:45
10
Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
4:05
11
Acrobat
4:09
12
Love Is Blindness
3:43
Moments Worth Listening For
The way One is stripped of its grandiosity, becoming a fragile whisper over a single acoustic guitar.
The transformation of The Fly from an industrial rocker into a jittery, intimate folk track with dry percussion.
The haunting, reverb-soaked piano that anchors the closing moments of Love Is Blindness, emphasizing the lyrical desolation.
Where This Album DepartsEach spoke is a trait. The orange shape shows where this album pulls away from — or holds to — the rest of the artist’s catalogue. Tap for more.

How does Achtung Matty sound next to the rest of Matt Nathanson's catalogue?

Late Night+4.0σ

Late Night saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

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