The Mattson 2

The Mattson 2 are Jared and Jonathan Mattson, identical twins who have been collaborating almost literally from birth. They grew up in San Diego, CA, where in middle school they started playing music; decades later, they had earned Master’s degrees in Music from the University of California Irvine. They formed their psych-jazz group The Mattson 2 in 2003, and released their first album, Introducing the Mattson 2, in 2009.

The Mattson 2’s recent output includes the celebratory, disco-splashed Toro Y Moi single "Millennium" which appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The twin brothers cameoed in the joints video as grumpy orderlies in a mental ward high-jacking instruments from Chaz Bear’s bandmates. Amongst collabs w/ Ray Barbee, ‪Tommy Guerrero, Farmer Dave (of ‪Kurt Vile), and ‪‪Money Mark (of ‪‪Beastie Boys)‪, they released Star Stuff in 2017 with Chaz Bear (FKA Chaz Bundick, AKA Toro Y Moi) — #1 on Billboard contemporary jazz charts — and reinterpreted Coltrane’s legendary A Love Supreme.

Bohsheekwo (2022) is the result of pandemic isolation, history on the road, eight records under the belt, and it is the pinnacle of Mattson 2’s work as producers in their own right. Reflecting on what they learned working with Chaz Bear, the twins collage together an ecosystem of simplicity, minimalism, and lush maximalism of an almost surrealist nature. The record shifts from Lo-fi indie with crackles and pops that sound like crunching paper which then take you on a cruise to tropical Brazilian Jazz ala symphonic rock—think “Roman Blue” by Danger Mouse.