Over two years in the making, his first solo album, “Premature Unconsciousness,” offers a compelling glimpse into the future of Matt’s solo endeavors and takes the listener on a soothingly melancholic journey into the cracks and lines of the psyche that are too often dwelled upon, but are nonetheless essential for everyday human existence.

No doubt, Stephen Stills and co. would be proud of Matt Schneider. As would Robert Frost, William Ackerman, and Buddha. For Schneider, in his acoustic guitar and lyrical mastery, combines the harmonies of CSN in an abstract manner that is nearly a spiritual chant, with poetry that combines opposing ideas and speeds them crashing into each other at break-brain speeds. Wonderful stuff here and truly unique/artistic. The CD contains 7 tracks that are a musical and spiritual journey - beginning with track 1 - the instrumental introduction to Schneider’s unassuming an technically proficient composing on acoustic guitar, “Enlighten Confusion”. Schneider plays hard - hits the strings with force - from single line melody to chordal extended and open strumming - and the passion bleeds through the recording. His lyrics are genuine and intelligent. In “Descent of Origin”, he hints at the opportunity within the discarded ancestry, ‘this pathetic foreign namesake leaves an abundance of greater possibilities’. The lyrics are sung with harmony - but the melodic line verges on the syncopated and dissonant. There is overlapping lines in tracks like, “Below”, that is almost like a musical Robert Altman in the interaction of voices. Schneider establishes himself as an artist with a compelling and innovative collection of music.