YUMMM: Matty Bedrosian's Bedroom-Pop Shapeshifter SILLYPUTTY
Matty Bedrosian has spent most of his life starting over. Growing pineapples on an organic farm in Hawaii. Selling flowers and delivering coffee by bicycle in the Bay Area. Bartending in a fine dining restaurant in Minneapolis. Touring the country with friends and collaborators. He grew up moving around central and coastal California, thanks to what he calls his mother's free spirited nature, and the wanderlust stuck. "It was very alluring for me to keep starting over, and has been a theme in my life in many other ways," he told BroadwayWorld. "I would see opportunities to explore different places and parts of myself, and didn't hesitate to make those leaps."
That restlessness is the engine of YUMMM, his recording project, and it runs all through the new album SILLYPUTTY, out November 13, 2026. The record shapeshifts between lo-fi bedroom pop, guitar driven alt-rock, and meditative slowcore, sometimes inside a single song, and Bedrosian did almost all of it himself. He wrote, produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered the album solo, with guest vocals from Lauren Anderson (aka Idle Empress) on "Hog Heaven", "Plug", and "Go There", and from CASANDRA on "Juggling". His years working with artists like From Indian Lakes and CASANDRA show in the production, which gives the songs room to breathe even when the guitars get loud.
The record is also a kind of homecoming. Bedrosian picked up his first guitar around age 12, a birthday gift he had spotted at Costco, and learned songs by Papa Roach, Creed, Linkin Park, and Third Eye Blind before playing in his church band and then a metalcore group with friends. He drifted away from rock for years. SILLYPUTTY is him making peace with it. "I grew up listening to butt rock, nu-metal, Christian rock, and screamo, so it took a long time to make peace with the genre, and the fact that I genuinely enjoy rocking out," he said. "There was just a lot of baggage there, and it feels pretty unpacked these days."
Listen
The latest single, "Yarrow", is the contemplative side of the record. Where lead single "Plug" hurtles forward on a driving beat with Bedrosian's hushed, melodic vocal riding over crunchy guitars, "Yarrow" slows down and lets the ache sit for a while. It is a song about a romantic fling and the strange power it can hold when you are feeling down on life and unsure of yourself. "It is a celebration of the sense of abandonment that romance encourages, and a caution against abandoning yourself just for a rush of dopamine," Bedrosian said. "Traditionally, the yarrow plant is used to stop the bleeding, not replace the blood."
The album's cover art is a painting called "Un hilo enredado" ("A tangled thread") by Ruth de la Cruz, a friend Bedrosian met while they worked together at a restaurant in Highland Park. It fits. This is a record about tangled threads, pulled loose and tied back together in a new shape.
Start here
- "Yarrow", the newest single and the quiet heart of the record
- "Plug", the propulsive lead single, all driving beat and hushed melody
- Then the full album SILLYPUTTY, out November 13, 2026, best heard start to finish
Where to follow
Follow YUMMM on Instagram and keep an eye out for SILLYPUTTY on your streaming service of choice this Friday. The Pixanami Indie Music Blog will be listening.