“All the Pieces Fit” is the first single off of Jason Matu’s debut album, Dumb Ecstatic Bliss, coming this fall. Produced and mixed by Justin Craig. Mastered by Greg Calbi.
The song posits that “all the pieces fit how the pieces fit.” It is a daring position to take, to be sure, but it is one the tune takes with the utmost confidence. It is as if it is sure that the pieces do indeed fit how the pieces fit, when most of us don’t even know if there are pieces at all, let alone whether they fit together. Even as a marvel of philosophical reasoning, though, it still manages astounding feats of poetic excellence. If “[p]uzzled pirates pushing pure purported privity” does not sum up the current state of human experience, it would be difficult to imagine that there is any sequence of words that could.
The track features performances the aforementioned Mrrs. Matu and Craig, as well Adam Kruckenberg, also in Shapes on Tape with Mr. Matu, and Cedric Warner Sparkman, who was the singer for the band, Candidate, in which Mr. Matu played bass and wrote tunes back in the day.
And here are the lyrics for “All the Pieces Fit”:
All the Pieces Fit
Jason Matu
Fashion forward follow function frightened fickle fiends
Mister motion moving mountains missing mystery
Super starlight started somewhere, soothing special scene
Though it seemed to go together I couldn’t
Make much sense of it
All the pieces fit
How the pieces fit
Craving caring corporation captivity
Puzzled pirates pushing pure purported privity
Ghostly ghouls glaring, goodness doing guaranteed
Though it seemed to go together I couldn’t
Make much sense of it
All the pieces fit
How the pieces fit
You never know how it goes till you go down to that watering hole
Though it seemed to go together I couldn’t
Make much sense of it
All the pieces fit
How the pieces fit
