Butchie launches debut EP ‘Midnight Brunch’
Butchie
Tokyo/New York project Butchie releases its first EP “Midnight Brunch,” a four-track digital release. The EP is written and voiced by artist Matthew Waldman with composition and production by Teleman’s Peter Cattermoul (as Pete Catt). The record offers a mix of dream-pop and synth-led textures through stories rooted in 1980s New York and Tokyo’s queer underground.
Cattermoul is known as bassist and co-founder of UK indie group Teleman (Moshi Moshi), active since 2011.
“Working with Matt on his debut release has been a real joy and privilege,” Pete Catt says, noting influences spanning Blancmange, Patrick Cowley, Depeche Mode, The Presets, John Grant, Emika, and Sufjan Stevens. “Matt’s husky, delicate New York voice lends instant swagger and subtle gentleness to the tracks… this feels like the start of a beautiful journey.”
“Midnight Brunch” is available on Bandcamp and on all other major streaming platforms.
About Butchie
Butchie is the musical project of New York-born, Tokyo-based artist and designer Matthew Waldman, founder of the design brand Nooka and professor at Keio University’s Graduate School of Media Design. The project’s debut EP, “Midnight Brunch,” features lyrics authored in the 1980s/1990s and newly recorded in 2025 with producer/multi-instrumentalist Pete Catt (Peter Cattermoul).
Thematically, Butchie places memory, desire, and urban mythology at the center of a synth-pop/dream-pop framework.
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