Matteah Baim was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. When she was 13, she purchased her first guitar and first record from a basement pawn shop. At the age of 17, Baim moved to California to study painting and drawing at the San Francisco Art Institute. After graduating, she moved to New York City, where she met Sierra Casady. The duo formed the self described "soft-metal band" Metallic Falcons. Their 2006 debut, Desert Doughnuts, was released by VE/ Touch and Go. Baim went on to record her first solo record, Death of the Sun, in 2007 for Dicristina/ Revolver USA. Laughing Boy, her second album, followed soon after in 2009. Tours during that time took Baim all over the world to such festivals as ATP U.K. and Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit at the Shoreline Amphitheater. She went on to perform as part of events for Vashti Bunyan's film release, From Here to Before. In 2009, she also performed in conjunction with Antony and the Johnsons' U.S. tour of The Crying Light and with their Another World Installation-Performance at MoMA's historic Clock Tower Gallery. In that same year, Baim was asked to create music for a film by the artist, Susanne Winterling, as well as for a series of videos by the French performance group, Pillars of Fire. Both her music and visual work have been featured in exhibitions at MoMA PS1, Gavin Brown Enterprises, James Cohan Gallery, White Columns, Sara Meltzer Gallery/ Projects, The Armory Show 2010, and The Dispatch Gallery. Recently, Drag City released The Accidental Joke, a series of collaborative drawings made with Rose Lazar. Baim lives and works in New York City.
"Matteah Baim's sound world is monumental"- Mojo
"Harbors a commitment to unfettered trans-dimensionalism"- Decibel
"Performs the magical trick of making quietness speak volumes"- The Guardian
"Makes austere music that sounds almost angelic."- Interview Magazine
"It's one of those sounds akin to early Van Morrison, Leonard Cohen or Nico, in so much that it's unique and fresh and seems natural as air, yet only vaguely resembles the other elements surrounding it at the record store."-Jambase
"Baim has a mesmerizing, velvety voice that dips and soars in accordance to her atypical phrasing, and at times it sounds as though she's singing a lullaby straight into your ear." -Pitchfork
