Kevin Bronson on April 26th, 2017

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Out of the ashes of SoCal indie-poppers Max & the Moon (who played their final show in January) comes Rows, the new project headed up by Matt Couchois. Rows’ first single is “New Heart,” a lush, big-hearted song that fits well in L.A.’s crowded indie-pop galaxy. Couchois plays all the instruments on Rows’ songs except drums, which were tracked by his brother Dillon, and the single was produced by Wally Gagel and Xandy Barry at WAX LTD Studios. It’s the first in a monthly series that will be capped by the release of a six-song EP later this year.

“‘New Heart’ is a love letter I wrote to someone who’s passed on,” Matt Couchois says. “My best friend lost his mom to cancer, and I wrote this song one day as it all came crashing down on me. Grief is a struggle we all go through and writing about it can sometimes be therapeutic. In this song, it was written with urgency since I felt if I didn’t capture this bottled up grief, I may never get the words right. She loved intensely and lived a colorful life, which I tried my best to convey sonically and lyrically.”

||| Stream: “New Heart”