09/26/2025

M. Sage’s Tender / Wading ~ Out Now!

M. Sage’s Tender / Wading shimmers across landscapes today, a stroll through rediscovered terrain.

Tender / Wading sprouted from Matt’s return to Colorado after nearly a decade in Chicago, where he now nurtures a couple acres of neglected, overgrown space with his family thirty miles outside his hometown. Operating out of a DIY studio fashioned from a pole barn and nestled among deeply familiar foothills and pastures, Matt began tracing the footsteps of his former selves through the dirt-smeared lens of his present.

As a friend, Matt rarely fails to cross the RVNG mind each day, yet his presence as an artist continues to surprise us. Tender / Wading was not the album we were anticipating from Matt, but is the album we needed. Listening to Tender / Wading feels like a lingering walk across an open field, sometimes familiar and embedded with memories, sometimes entirely new. Each listen offers a different perceptual experience, revealing new layers of intimacy and abstraction.

So happy you’re home, Matt, and honored we can provide a second home, in tangible and intangible ways.