ocr: Though during his formative years Matthew embraced the synthesizer-heavy New Wave sound, he eventually discovered he had a major thing for classic guitar rock. Now he's taking this passion one step further by playing with himself. Although he's always laid down all the guitar parts on his demos, he was never secure enough to play them on the final product. But, after his friends urged him to release a record with the nutty-sounding guitar leads they'd heard resonating from his home studio, he's finally released Mars, an album that's truly all-Matthew-all- the-time.