Matt Midgley – “an outstanding guitar virtuouso with an all-action style” or, more simply, a “percussive guitarist” – recently released a new EP, ‘For Everybody And No One’, following his first album Cyan, released in 2010.

The three-track EP includes ‘Penumbra’, ‘Treehouse’ and ‘Ribbon’, and is available either in physical form (in handmade origami packaging) or as a download/stream from the usual crop of online outlets.

‘For Everybody And No One’ is the first of four ‘linked EPs’ that Midgley plans to release with a three month gap between each. As the songwriter explains in his own words:

“The four EPs are essentially an account of what remains probably the most reckless decision I’ve ever made: quitting my job in Edinburgh and moving to London with no money, a bag of clothes and books, and a guitar, essentially on a whim. [Midgley now resides in Oxfordshire].

“The individual EPs are unified by their timescale, not so much in writing (though that is true more often than not) but in reference; all the songs on this first EP are about the anxieties and pitfalls I ran into right at the start – regret, loneliness, that sense of being a burden on others – before getting a grip, and getting on with it. I spent a long time working out the exact order of the tracks so that the lines between each EP are blended together, so hopefully by the time I’ve finished all four, you can listen to them back-to-back and get a of the sense of the progression I felt while writing them.”

Find out more about Midgley and his music at his website. Here’s ‘Ribbon’, from the new EP: