Matías Roden

Matías Roden

Matías Roden is a singer/songwriter based in British Columbia. After moving to Vancouver at 18, he pursued a career as a songwriter in the city’s indie pop scene, including landing college radio play for some of his cuts as a writer.

When the pandemic began, with live performances and collaboration opportunities momentarily cut off, he began writing material as a form of self-therapy that he quickly realized was too personal to give away to anyone else. Drawing from 80s post-punk synth-pop (including Depeche Mode, Tears for Fears and Pet Shop Boys) combined with a modern, sample-based production sensibility, and with unflinchingly personal lyrics that delve into struggles with mental health, his unique childhood of growing up between vastly different cultures (the UK and Peru), societal alienation, sexuality, and more, he wrote and produced over a dozen demos in his makeshift bedroom studio.

His demos caught the attention of singer/songwriter/producer Louise Burns, and they are now working together to fully bring his vision to life as his first album.  In his own words, his music is “the sound of what it means to find yourself as a young man in the 21st century after living a transient and fragmented life—the highs, the lows, and everything in between”. His debut single is expected sometime this summer.