Today marks the first official album release by Matthew Loiacono, performing under the name Matthew Carefully. His new album is called Community Balloon, and is made up of ten songs that were built out of suggestions from Matthew’s email list.

In November 2008, Matthew started a brand new email list to keep in touch with those folks who are interested in his solo music. After sharing new music and music from his unreleased archive for nearly forty weeks, Matthew had an idea to solicit folks on the list for ideas which would be fodder for songs.

The content that came back after the initial call for entries was nothing short of excellent. Matthew received ideas, lyric snippets, poems, sound samples, challenges, and much more. He began to create songs from this material and delivered them to the list each week.

Seven weeks went by and judging by the feedback he received from list members, he realized that the songs were some of the best compositions he’d written to date.

Thus, Community Balloon was born.

Click here to listen to four songs from the album. While you are there, you’ve got a quick opportunity to pick up one of the last remaining “Community Bundles” which include posters, postcards and the brand new Music To Fall Asleep To Vol. 1 CD from Matthew!

If you’d simply like to order the CD with no bundle, click here.
If you’d like to purchase the album from iTunes, click here.
If you’d like to purchase the album from Amazon MP3, click here.
If you’d like to procure the album from eMusic, click here.