Discography
Eat!Sleep!Sex!Die! - Then... Love
(November 1, 2022)
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Dream Catch
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Build the Bass
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If It All Is
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Winning Loop
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Numbered
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I Got a Feeling
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New Human
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May Be
Eat!Sleep!Sex!Die! - Live Forever Die Forever
(August 22, 2015)
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Colorado Vacation
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Metadecay
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Grippin'
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Perchance
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What Is It
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Richness
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Wishes
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Promise Me a Lie
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Live Forever
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Line of Credibility
Eat!Sleep!Sex!Die! - Eat!Sleep!Sex!Die!
(May 1, 2011)
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Stumbler
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Unemployment Beard
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Silent Snow
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Bust
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Burn Me ‘Til I Don’t Mind
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Mr. Blankstare
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Run Fast
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Sting Float Sing
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Double Agent
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Falling Sound
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No Answers
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Away
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Unborn
Eric Mattys - You Don’t Have to Close Your Eyes
(January 1, 2006)
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Whistler
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Stretches and Reaches
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Glass Memories
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LA Orange Sunset
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Shadows on Caves
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Ghost Dream
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The Spell
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Dirty Lens
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Decay
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Floored
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That Lady
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Silent Snow
About the Artist
Eric Mattys also known as Eat! Sleep! Sex! Die! is an American singer-songwriter, recording artist, author, and science teacher. Recording out of library study rooms, bedrooms and most recently his own studio, Mattys has released four albums and one novel.
Growing up in a conservative part of Colorado Springs, Colorado proved an isolating factor for Mattys growing up. His childhood home was three blocks from the Focus on the Family headquarters, less than a mile from the Air Force Academy and several mormon churches. “I grew up thinking there might be something wrong with me because I didn’t see how God could be all powerful and do nothing for so many people. This was not a popular thought among people in my neighborhood.”
Mattys taught himself how to play guitar by playing along with old blues songs by Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf and John Lee Hooker. “I’m lucky to have a good ear. I discovered chords and scales by listening to other people.” His father played a key role in his musical development. “My dad had a MIDI keyboard hooked up to an old atari computer system. He had one of the first versions of Cakewalk studio, and he would let me play around on it whenever he was busy with other stuff. I think I was seven or eight. I remember being frustrated when I clicked on something that made playback impossible. I’d have to run upstairs and get help.” Mattys also learned to play saxophone in middle school, but stopped playing after a facial surgery changed his embouchure.
After graduating high school, Mattys bought a digital four-track recorder. He collaborated with several artists during his high school and college years, but as of yet has not released any of his earlier material. In 2006, he released You Don’t Have to Close Your Eyes which first displayed his DIY approach to music production.
After graduating and finding a job in education, Mattys started using the pseudonym Eat!Sleep!Sex!Die!. When asked about the name Mattys indicated that it came from his existential philosophy. “Too often we dress up our lives in ornate and extraneous details. But at our core we all have the same needs, desires and endings. In order to elucidate how we’re different, we have to recognize how we’re the same.”
In May of 2011 Mattys released Eat!Sleep!Sex!Die! which captured the tumultuous and nihilistic tone of America after the housing market collapse. "Unemployment Beard" is a humorous take on couchsurfing and being broke. "Sting Float Sing" is a lament to the American Dream featuring an old fisher-price xylophone. "Double Agent" comments on the duality of a country spying on itself. The recordings are rough and unpolished which echoes the lifestyle of Mattys at the time -- living out of a garage with eight other people in Boulder.
In August 2015 Mattys released Live Forever Die Forever an album which shows a progression of character. The opening song "Colorado Vacation" uses electronic builds to party hard Colorado style. "Metadecay" refers to a the song "Decay" from his 2006 release, but shifts to a spoken word overshare about the girl who made him write the original song. "Grippin'" and "What Is It" rap about social justice and the emptiness of materialism. "Live Forever" and "Line of Credibility" are lullabies of introspection. So the progression goes from being superficial and self-centered to being aware and thoughtful of other people to questioning whether art makes any difference in the end. One of closing lyrics of the album "If everything is bought and sold / does it matter what I say?" Only time will tell.
In 2018 Mattys published his first novel The Potential of Zeroes about three misfits sent on a quest through Denver to battle a coke-addled crime boss and get Oprah's audience high.
In 2019 he married his partner Ash in their backyard. In March of 2020 their son, Ridge, was born on the same day that at-home learning began because of the pandemic. He taught class from the maternity ward while Ridge and Ash were sleeping.
After much delay, Mattys released the album Then... Love in November of 2022.