Introduced by Matt Farley & Charlie Roxburgh.

(Charlie Roxburgh, 2021) The Motern version of a noir sees Matt Farley and Tom Scalzo playing versions of themselves as music professors and amateur musicians who become citizen sleuths in the face of an unknowable menace: a weird guy with a metal detector. As the pair delves deeper into the dark past of their “Metal Detector Maniac” during sabbatical, they find him a surprising source of inspiration for their forthcoming album.

As ever, Metal Detector Maniac is a hilarious treatise on artistic hangups and the struggle for creativity. At the same time, it plays out like something akin to Matt Farley’s Blue Velvet, as Tom and Matt uncover the rot hidden at the heart of their otherwise “sleepy bedroom community.”