Singer-Songwriter Matías Roden Introduces Himself to the World on Debut 'The Plea' EP feat. Hopeful Focus Track "Glowing"
• LISTEN TO/SHARE THE PLEA FEAT. “GLOWING” HERE •
Singer-Songwriter Matías Roden Introduces Himself to the World
on Debut The Plea EP feat. Hopeful Focus Track “Glowing”
• LISTEN TO/SHARE THE PLEA FEAT. “GLOWING” HERE •
THE PLEA EP ARTWORK PHOTOGRAPHY BY MATTHEW MILLER
DESIGN BY MATTHEW MILLER & MARLENA SZAZ – DOWNLOAD
Matías Roden is a Peruvian-Canadian singer-songwriter living in Vancouver, BC. Signed to Light Organ Records, his first single, “Snow Angel,” was released in November 2023 and followed by two more singles in 2024. Roden has performed at Music Waste and Khastahlano festivals since, as well as the upcoming Summerlight Festival, and his full-length debut album is set for release in early 2025.
Debut EP, The Plea, was recorded at Vancouver’s 604 Studios and serves as Roden’s formal introduction to this world; the official start of his journey as an artist. The Plea symbolizes a mixture of helplessness and resilience – it’s what happens when you’re young and you lose hope in the things that you thought mattered in your life.
Focus track, “Glowing,” is the moment where things start to turn a bit more hopeful. After a devastating heartbreak, Roden starts to learn to trust someone else and open up a bit more. Produced by Louise Burns, the song combines two very different elements of British pop music from the 80s and 90s – jazzy sophisti-pop and breakbeat.
Listen to The Plea featuring “Glowing” HERE.
I think the classic ‘quarter life crisis’ for a lot of young people feels like you’re being put on trial by your own hopes and dreams and others’ expectations for your life. It can feel overwhelming to realize that maybe your life isn’t going in exactly the direction you wanted it to go. So The Plea is a play on words of a plea deal at a trial where you’re both at the mercy of forces beyond your control but also wanting to defiantly assert yourself. It’s like I’m saying ‘I will get my life back together, I will get over this heartbreak or over this failure to live out my hopes and dreams, I will make them happen.’
– Matías Roden
I tread on ice
But there’s an ocean
In your eyes
My songs are generally about what it means to find purpose in your life in this crazy modern era we find ourselves in, through the lens of a gay man living in a big city and the heartbreak, isolation, but also fun and hope for the future that comes with that. I would like to think of my album as the Odyssey but make it gay 21st century version. Like a universal gay coming of age story that could also be more universal to anybody. – Matías Roden
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