Matthew Good

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Matthew Good’s new record, SOMETHING LIKE A STORM, was released Oct 27th and debuted in the top 5. Described by Spill Magazine as “Turbulent and beautiful,” and by Pure Grain Audio as an “instant classic,” Something Like a Storm is the 14th studio album by the prolific Matthew Good. His single, “There The First Time” is out at radio now. To date, Matthew’s studio albums have combined for nearly one million albums sold in Canada alone. Matthew has also been nominated for an incredible 21 Juno Awards, including one for his last album studio album CHAOTIC NEUTRAL.

Matthew Good has come to the realization that he’s a survivor.

“It’s like having been at war for a long time. There have been some near misses but I feel like I’ve been lucky not to get shot in the head.” His voice shakes with laughter. “Not that you remember any of it. It’s just a big blur.” Understandable.

In the early 90s he formed the Matthew Good Band, which would go on to net two Juno Awards for the Canadian rock classic, Beautiful Midnight before disbanding in 2002. Since 2003, Matt has been on his own through seven solo albums; works that have emerged as the bullets continued to fly around him. There were his missed diagnoses and hospitalizations, his return to indie status, not to mention a sea change in the music industry.

Despite all this, he’s still here—and he’s not going anywhere. Not if he has anything to say about it.
Chaotic Neutral is his seventh album, and his first with Warner Music. For a change he handed over the reins to his long-time producer Warne Livesey. He also brought in a handful of notables including Holly McNarland, Bones Hillman (Midnight Oil), Blake Manning, Anthony Wright, Stu Cameron and Sam Goldberg Jr. (Broken Social Scene). Matt explains “The process for this one was great. I got to say, ‘I’m just going to be the artist on this thing,’ which I found massively liberating.”

In fact, Matthew Good is more than just a survivor of the music industry. In his two decades defining the landscape of the Canadian music scene he has sold nearly a million albums on his way to becoming the best-selling Canadian indie artist of all time. He has been nominated for 20 Juno Awards, winning 4. When describing what has kept him going, despite the bumps along the way Matthew says:
“Music is measured in miles. In the way the air feels, eyes closed, just before a thunderstorm hits. In how your heart races with excitement and anticipation for something or someone. In smiles, tears, solemnity, and even silences. Its choreography is found in the ordinary actions of everyday life. Dance sequences unrehearsed. Pyrotechnics as different and unique and singular as there are people on the planet.”

Track by Track:

All You Sons and Daughters
People tell me that with the way fans sample albums on Spotify and whatever, the first track on the album is critical to their grabbing their attention. I wrote the first half of the song in 2011 and then resurrected it. I’d always loved the first half of that song.

Moment
I kinda looked at the whole mental health situation and wrote something that just wasn’t dour about it. There are times in your life when you just have to exhale.

Kid Down the Well
That’s one of the songs featuring Holly on vocals. Me and Holly McNarland have almost identical male-female voices. We have very much the same natural vibrato. People have been saying that I should use her way more.

No Liars
The whole thing popped out of a beat that was inspired by U2’s “The Fly.” The guitar was put in later. Sam came in and learned the riff I had written, but then he said “I kinda got this idea…” He played all his parts and I just chucked my main bit. So he got a co-write on it. It’s only fair. He just came with magic.

Harridan
A compete homage to Nina Simone.

Girls in Black
Sam played all the guitars on that track. I don’t play on this one at all.

Tiger by the Tail
You have to remember that before this record, I wrote an entire album and threw it away. I had a twenty-one minute song called “Something Like a Storm” compete with a demo. But then I deleted it. I just started again and the first new song I wrote was “Tiger By the Tail.” Some elements of “Storm” survived, but not much. And I like that phrase: “tiger by the tail.”

Cold Water
I think I hit the nail on the head with this one: a cool Van Morrison-type soundscape. It tells the story of a sailor in a rowboat off the coast of Plymouth. His wife thinks he’s dead but when he is ultimately is rescued and returns home, she’s gone. I think it might be the best song on the record.

Cloudbusting
Covering a Kate Bush song? A risky proposition. You just don’t cover Kate Bush lightly. It’s one of my favourite songs of all time. And when I attacked it, I had no intention of putting it on the album. But then I thought “This isn’t that bad.” And I did take a few liberties with the arrangement.

Army of Lions
I write with bass. I just hear the bass first. And I go from there. This songs is about how information is misconstrued as too much info. Social media stuff, you know? A lot of that really bugs me now. I’ve always been really open, but now when I to keep things quiet, people get pissed because they feel they have a right to know. It’s about reclaiming some privacy.

Los Alamos
It’s a love story from the point of view of a nuclear scientist in New Mexico during the Manhattan Project. There’s a lazy 40’s thing to it that laments about the distance that can build between people.
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Top tracks

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Mutineering
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Arrows of Desire
05:05
Writer: Matthew Good
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Radicals
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Moving Walls
04:34
Writer: Matthew Good
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Last Parade
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Vancouver
05:56
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Fought to Fight It
Matthew Good
Vancouver
04:25
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Lullaby For The New World Order
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Avalanche
03:52
Composers: Matthew Good
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Decades
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Something Like a Storm
03:40
Writer: Matthew Good
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Garden of Knives
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Arrows of Desire
05:29
Writer: Matthew Good
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Born Losers
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Hospital Music
05:19
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In A World Called Catastrophe
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Avalanche
05:57
Composers: Matthew Good
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While We Were Hunting Rabbits
Matthew Good
Avalanche
08:00
Composers: Matthew Good
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All You Sons and Daughters
Matthew Good
Chaotic Neutral
04:03
Writer: Matthew Good
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The Boy Who Could Explode
Matthew Good
Vancouver
07:09
01
Pledge of Allegiance
Matthew Good
Avalanche
04:59
02
A Momentary Truth
Matthew Good
Moving Walls
03:07
Writer: Matthew Good
04
Us Remains Impossible
Matthew Good
Vancouver
04:48
01
Champions of Nothing
Matthew Good
Hospital Music
09:33
05
On Nights Like Tonight
Matthew Good
Vancouver
04:25
10
Empty's Theme Park
Matthew Good
Vancouver
09:29
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Oh Be Joyful
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In A Coma
03:52
01
Bad Guys Win
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Something Like a Storm
04:24
Writer: Matthew Good
01
Triage
Matthew Good
Triage
04:28
Writer: Karl Amani Wailoo - Matthew Good / Composers: Matthew Good
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Zero Orchestra
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Old Fighters
04:46
Writer: Matthew Good / Composers: Matthew Good
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Big City Life
Matthew Good
In A Coma
04:15
09
Guns of Carolina
Matthew Good
Arrows of Desire
04:42
Writer: Matthew Good
04
99% of Us Is Failure
Matthew Good
Hospital Music
05:37
03
Beauty
Matthew Good
Moving Walls
05:32
Writer: Matthew Good
06
Something Like a Storm
Matthew Good
Something Like a Storm
05:55
Writer: Matthew Good
08
Bright End Of Nowhere
Matthew Good
Avalanche
04:08
Composers: Matthew Good
09
Near Fantastica
Matthew Good
Avalanche
08:00
11
Buffalo Seven (Album Version)
Matthew Good
White Light Rock and Roll Review
03:20
05
Avalanche
Matthew Good
Avalanche
07:26
03
We're So Heavy (Album Version)
Matthew Good
White Light Rock and Roll Review
04:35
01
Extraordinary Fades
Matthew Good
Lights of Endangered Species
02:54
05
Boobytrapped
Matthew Good
Moving Walls
04:18
Writer: Matthew Good
07
Blown Wide Open
Matthew Good
Covered in Gold: 5.0, Side A
05:33
Writer: Ian Thornley

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  • Discography
Albums
℗ 2020 M.Good Productions Inc.
21-02-2020
Moving Walls
01
One of Them Years
Matthew Good
Moving Walls
04:57
Writer: Matthew Good
02
A Momentary Truth
Matthew Good
Moving Walls
03:07
Writer: Matthew Good
03
Beauty
Matthew Good
Moving Walls
05:32
Writer: Matthew Good
04
Sicily
Matthew Good
Moving Walls
03:57
Writer: Matthew Good
05
Boobytrapped
Matthew Good
Moving Walls
04:18
Writer: Matthew Good
06
Radicals
Matthew Good
Moving Walls
04:34
Writer: Matthew Good
07
Dreading It
Matthew Good
Moving Walls
06:09
Writer: Matthew Good
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℗ 2017 M. Good Productions Inc.
20-10-2017
Something Like a Storm
01
Bad Guys Win
Matthew Good
Something Like a Storm
04:24
Writer: Matthew Good
02
Decades
Matthew Good
Something Like a Storm
03:40
Writer: Matthew Good
03
Men at the Door
Matthew Good
Something Like a Storm
04:55
Writer: Matthew Good
04
There the First Time
Matthew Good
Something Like a Storm
04:49
Writer: Matthew Good - Warne Livesey
05
Days Come Down
Matthew Good
Something Like a Storm
04:09
Writer: Matthew Good - Warne Livesey
06
Something Like a Storm
Matthew Good
Something Like a Storm
05:55
Writer: Matthew Good
07
She's Got You Where She Wants You
Matthew Good
Something Like a Storm
04:11
Writer: Matthew Good
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℗ 2015 M. GOOD PRODUCTIONS INC.
25-09-2015
Chaotic Neutral
01
All You Sons and Daughters
Matthew Good
Chaotic Neutral
04:03
Writer: Matthew Good
02
Moment
Matthew Good
Chaotic Neutral
04:08
Writer: Matthew Good
03
Kid Down the Well
Matthew Good
Chaotic Neutral
04:26
Writer: Matthew Good
04
No Liars
Matthew Good
Chaotic Neutral
03:54
Writer: Matthew Good - Sam Goldberg Jr.
05
Harridan
Matthew Good
Chaotic Neutral
05:47
Writer: Matthew Good
06
Tiger by the Tail
Matthew Good
Chaotic Neutral
05:42
Writer: Matthew Good
07
Girls in Black
Matthew Good
Chaotic Neutral
04:38
Writer: Matthew Good
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℗ 2013 M. Good Productions Inc.
24-09-2013
Arrows of Desire
01
Arrows of Desire
Matthew Good
Arrows of Desire
04:06
Writer: Matthew Good
02
Via Dolorosa
Matthew Good
Arrows of Desire
04:02
Writer: Matthew Good
03
Had It Coming
Matthew Good
Arrows of Desire
02:40
Writer: Matthew Good
04
We’re Long Gone
Matthew Good
Arrows of Desire
02:09
Writer: Matthew Good
05
So Close
Matthew Good
Arrows of Desire
03:42
Writer: Matthew Good
06
Garden of Knives
Matthew Good
Arrows of Desire
05:29
Writer: Matthew Good
07
Mutineering
Matthew Good
Arrows of Desire
05:05
Writer: Matthew Good
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℗ 2013 FrostByte Media Inc.
12-03-2013
Old Fighters
01
Strange Days
Matthew Good
Old Fighters
04:20
Writer: Matthew Good / Composers: Matthew Good - Dave Genn
02
In A World Called Catastrophe
Matthew Good
Old Fighters
05:58
Writer: Matthew Good / Composers: Matthew Good
03
Weapon
Matthew Good
Old Fighters
06:00
Writer: Matthew Good / Composers: Matthew Good
04
Apparitions (Live)
Matthew Good
Old Fighters
05:18
Writer: Matthew Good / Composers: Matthew Good - Dave Genn
05
Load Me Up (Live)
Matthew Good
Old Fighters
04:20
Writer: Matthew Good / Composers: Matthew Good - Dave Genn - Ian Browne - Rich Priske
06
Born Losers
Matthew Good
Old Fighters
05:17
Writer: Matthew Good / Composers: Matthew Good
07
Last Parade
Matthew Good
Old Fighters
05:56
Writer: Matthew Good / Composers: Matthew Good
Access the complete album info (14 songs)
℗ 2013 Frostbyte Media
01-01-2013
Arrows Of Desire
01
Arrows Of Desire
Matthew Good
Arrows Of Desire
04:06
Writer: Matthew Good / Composers: Matthew Good
02
Via Dolorosa
Matthew Good
Arrows Of Desire
04:02
Writer: Matthew Good / Composers: Matthew Good
03
Had It Coming
Matthew Good
Arrows Of Desire
02:40
Writer: Matthew Good / Composers: Matthew Good
04
We're Long Gone
Matthew Good
Arrows Of Desire
02:09
Writer: Matthew Good / Composers: Matthew Good
05
So Close
Matthew Good
Arrows Of Desire
03:42
Writer: Matthew Good / Composers: Matthew Good
06
Garden Of Knives
Matthew Good
Arrows Of Desire
05:29
Writer: Matthew Good / Composers: Matthew Good
07
Mutineering
Matthew Good
Arrows Of Desire
05:05
Writer: Matthew Good / Composers: Matthew Good
Access the complete album info (10 songs)
03-05-2011
Lights of Endangered Species
01
Extraordinary Fades
Matthew Good
Lights of Endangered Species
02:54
02
How It Goes
Matthew Good
Lights of Endangered Species
04:02
03
Shallows Low
Matthew Good
Lights of Endangered Species
05:05
04
What If I Can't See the Stars, Mildred?
Matthew Good
Lights of Endangered Species
05:11
05
Zero Orchestra
Matthew Good
Lights of Endangered Species
04:46
06
Non Populus
Matthew Good
Lights of Endangered Species
08:19
07
In a Place of Lesser Men
Matthew Good
Lights of Endangered Species
03:09
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01-01-2009
Vancouver
01
Last Parade
Matthew Good
Vancouver
05:56
02
The Boy Who Could Explode
Matthew Good
Vancouver
07:09
03
Great Whales of the Sea
Matthew Good
Vancouver
03:33
04
Us Remains Impossible
Matthew Good
Vancouver
04:48
05
On Nights Like Tonight
Matthew Good
Vancouver
04:25
06
Volcanoes
Matthew Good
Vancouver
05:05
07
A Silent Army in the Trees
Matthew Good
Vancouver
05:39
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31-07-2007
Hospital Music
01
Champions of Nothing
Matthew Good
Hospital Music
09:33
02
A Single Explosion
Matthew Good
Hospital Music
03:02
03
Metal Airplanes
Matthew Good
Hospital Music
05:41
04
99% of Us Is Failure
Matthew Good
Hospital Music
05:37
05
Born Losers
Matthew Good
Hospital Music
05:19
06
Odette
Matthew Good
Hospital Music
03:29
07
Black Helicopter
Matthew Good
Hospital Music
04:43
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20-09-2005
In A Coma
01
Oh Be Joyful
Matthew Good
In A Coma
03:52
02
Big City Life
Matthew Good
In A Coma
04:15
03
Alert Status Red
Matthew Good
In A Coma
04:19
04
Weapon
Matthew Good
In A Coma
06:06
05
In A World Called Catastrophe
Matthew Good
In A Coma
05:59
06
Hello Time Bomb
Matthew Good
In A Coma
03:56
07
Load Me Up
Matthew Good
In A Coma
03:42
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15-06-2004
White Light Rock & Roll Review
01
Put Out Your Lights
Matthew Good
White Light Rock & Roll Review
02:03
02
Poor Man's Grey
Matthew Good
White Light Rock & Roll Review
02:22
03
We're So Heavy
Matthew Good
White Light Rock & Roll Review
04:35
04
Empty Road
Matthew Good
White Light Rock & Roll Review
03:29
05
Alert Status Red
Matthew Good
White Light Rock & Roll Review
04:25
06
Little Terror
Matthew Good
White Light Rock & Roll Review
03:07
07
In Love With a Bad Idea
Matthew Good
White Light Rock & Roll Review
03:30
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℗ 2004 Universal Music Canada Inc.
01-01-2004
White Light Rock and Roll Review
01
Put Out Your Lights (Album Version)
Matthew Good
White Light Rock and Roll Review
02:03
02
Poor Man's Grey (Album Version)
Matthew Good
White Light Rock and Roll Review
02:23
03
We're So Heavy (Album Version)
Matthew Good
White Light Rock and Roll Review
04:35
04
Empty Road (Album Version)
Matthew Good
White Light Rock and Roll Review
03:30
05
Alert Status Red (Album Version)
Matthew Good
White Light Rock and Roll Review
04:19
Composers: Matthew Good
06
Little Terror (Album Version)
Matthew Good
White Light Rock and Roll Review
03:07
07
In Love With A Bad Idea (Album Version)
Matthew Good
White Light Rock and Roll Review
03:27
Access the complete album info (12 songs)
℗ 2013 Universal Music Canada Inc.
04-03-2003
Avalanche
01
Pledge Of Allegiance
Matthew Good
Avalanche
04:59
Composers: Matthew Good
02
Lullaby For The New World Order
Matthew Good
Avalanche
03:52
Composers: Matthew Good
03
Weapon
Matthew Good
Avalanche
05:58
Composers: Matthew Good
04
In A World Called Catastrophe
Matthew Good
Avalanche
05:57
Composers: Matthew Good
05
Avalanche
Matthew Good
Avalanche
07:26
Composers: Matthew Good
06
21st Century Living
Matthew Good
Avalanche
03:10
Composers: Matthew Good
07
While We Were Hunting Rabbits
Matthew Good
Avalanche
08:00
Composers: Matthew Good
Access the complete album info (13 songs)
EPs
℗ 2016 M. Good Productions Inc.
02-12-2016
I Miss New Wave: Beautiful Midnight Revisited - EP
01
I Miss New Wave
Matthew Good
I Miss New Wave: Beautiful Midnight Revisited - EP
04:51
Writer: Dave Genn - Matthew Good
02
Suburbia
Matthew Good
I Miss New Wave: Beautiful Midnight Revisited - EP
04:22
Writer: Dave Genn - Matthew Good
03
Born to Kill
Matthew Good
I Miss New Wave: Beautiful Midnight Revisited - EP
04:57
Writer: Dave Genn - Matthew Good
04
Let's Get It On
Matthew Good
I Miss New Wave: Beautiful Midnight Revisited - EP
04:05
Writer: Dave Genn - Matthew Good
05
Load Me Up
Matthew Good
I Miss New Wave: Beautiful Midnight Revisited - EP
06:18
Writer: Dave Genn - Ian Browne - Matthew Good - Rich Priske
Singles
2025 Darktown Records
18-04-2025
Triage
01
Triage
Matthew Good
Triage
04:28
Writer: Karl Amani Wailoo - Matthew Good / Composers: Matthew Good