LONE
A pillar of the UK electronic music scene,
Matt Cutler is releasing his first album in five years, Always Inside Your Head, this October. In that time, he’s switched labels, moving over to London-via-Berlin collective Greco-Roman, and developed a new approach that weaves dream-pop vocals into richly textured electronica, taking inspiration from My Bloody Valentine and Cocteau Twins. Cutler joins us to talk through his creative process and studio setup, giving us an insight into the ideas and instruments behind Always Inside Your Head.
1 When did you first get involved with music production?
“Well it definitely goes back a pretty long way. I’d been messing around with some toy keyboards and tape recorders from the age of about nine, but I honestly don’t know if you could really class what I was doing back in that time as ‘music production’.
“I got a computer game called Music for the PlayStation in 1999 which was a super basic sequencer, and you could also write little tunes and stuff on it, so I guess that was my proper introduction to how electronic music was actually made.
“By 2001 my family had bought a PC and I quickly downloaded a demo of FL Studio, or Fruity Loops as it was known back then. Pretty much the same setup as the game really, so I was able to hit the ground running and started obsessively making my own tunes straightaway. I’m happy to say I’m still using FL Studio as the
