Don Lifted

"Just about every album released in 2021 has been a product of the pandemic in some sense, but few seem to have been shaped by it so thoroughly, and fewer still capture the feeling of locked-down anxiety, dejection, and intimacy so viscerally. Even when the track cuts, as it does at the end of borderline-meditative standout "Lost In Orion" to the sound of what seems to be his family laughing, the songs still seem to be set inside Matthews's head." - Alex Robert Ross

Love to The FADER this has been a dream!!!

"325i" the new album by Don Lifted out at midnight wherever you consume music via Fat Possum Records

Well…. We really out here….

SXSW 2022….. I can’t lie I almost did donuts on Winchester when I got the email 😂🤣

I’m eternally grateful and can’t wait to get on that stage…. This has been a desire since I started this! Thank you to everyone on the team that made this happen!

When I first started making music in this city as a teen I spent 90 percent of my time and energy desiring escape. For that deep seeded frustration and alienation felt in those times to be transformed into love and platform has been overwhelming time and time again. I don’t think I’ve ever shook off my strained beginnings in this… love sometimes feels like a rug waiting to be pulled from under me. For all of the success attributed to my life as sure as I am of my abilities I am terrified… weighted and overtaken by the the current of this journey. I remember wanting to be on the cover of the Memphis Flyer the moment I knew it existed. In 2011 it felt very much impossible…. To be here today, loved in anyway, supported, existing with platform, for me…. a kid with my story, my ups and downs, my identity… it feels validating in my being here. In being a Memphian.

Thank you to The Memphis Flyer and Alex Greene for your continued support over the years.

"Darla (Love Me)" OUT NOW

https://donlifted.lnk.to/DarlaID

Directed by Josh Cannon & Nubia Yasin

Director of Photography: Sam Leathers 

Production Design and Makeup by Amber George

Written by L. Matthews & Nubia Yasin 

Key Grip: Martin Matthews

Guitar: MadameFraankie

Drums: Cj Henry

Mastering: Mike Bozzi

@studio.onefourthree x Golden Boi x Fat Possum Records

Don’t forget to get tickets for the live performance at Crosstown Arts Theater on Oct 29th.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/don-lifted-at-crosstown-theater-tickets-171415326857

Well… today is my birthday… but it also felt like the perfect time to announce I’ll be performing at the Crosstown Theatre on October 29th. ✨

So wish the boi a happy birthday and cop a ticket! It’ll be my first show in literally two years and I’d love to see you there!! ✨

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/don-lifted-at-crosstown-theater-tickets-171415326857

#donlifted #fatpossum #crosstownarts #crosstownconcourse

“Once upon a now you motion still, perilous and inviting. You wave. You slide upon shore and shingle, with your foam inching toward my toes. Will you bite or sting or send me something more serene? With you, I never know. Are you witness? Are you accomplice? Are you forgiven? Come high days off humility, and you simply wash my pits. Come high days of holy, and you baptize my forehead. Come days of commerce and cargo, you hold a ship. And once upon a then you held bodies in the bosom of a ship until they leapt. And you swallowed them down. Drowned: these bodies unwanting to be owned. I said, you carry a heavy vessel but pin a body down. Yet word around town is you are life, sustaining and satiating all that I eat and breathe and be. And every sea in me shifts with moon of memory. Ancient griefs still haunt me, propel me, lift me so that no body can let me down. Call me Venus or call me by name, however you see me, see me free.” - Ciona Rouse

Darla - 09/28/21

Golden Boi x Studio One Four Three x Fat Possum Records

Darla - 09/28/21

“Love me now.. love me, love me not”

Golden Boi x Studio One Four Three x @fatpossumrecords

My new album is dropping on October 22nd and I can't wait to share it with you all!! It's been 3 years since the last drop. Love to Fat Possum Records and everyone that helped make this body of work possible. More coming soon...

Brain Fluid... is now available for your viewing pleasure....

Thank you to all the beautiful folks that made this visual as special as it is. I'm forever grateful to you for trusting us with your image and space...

Hit that pre-save below for “Brain Fluid”. The song and visual drop August 24th…. I also might have something else to share, you never know….. 🤷🏾‍♂️👀

Brain Fluid - August 24th 2021

Vocals: Lawrence Matthews

Guitar: MadameFraankie

Drums: Cj Henry

Artwork: Catherine Elizabeth & Amber George

Mix: Lawrence Matthews

Master: The Goat Mike Bozzi

“I been waiting for a sign..... reaching for you in the night...”

Golden Boi x Studio One Four Three

BTS 🌞 2/2

Really thankful for this team. I feel like every visual Joshua and I have a conversation about pushing ourselves to make really special shit. Not perfect…. Not easy… not what’s expected… but something that challenges and grows everyone on set.

Tell everyone you know we have more coming in every way possible. ✨✨✨