A STUDY IN SELF-CREATION

CUSTOMMADE

You are not a finished product.

A sonic and visual exploration of identity, authorship, and becoming.

WHAT IS THIS ABOUT?

Most of us inherit a version of ourselves before we are old enough to choose one.

CUSTOM MADE begins in a smash-repair workshop and becomes a record about the work of remaking a life.

It uses the language of panels, paint and polish to ask a human question: what happens when you stop treating yourself as damaged stock—and start recognising yourself as the author?

This is not a makeover story. It is the sound of stripping back factory settings, matching your own colour and deciding what leaves the workshop.

THE HUMAN AUTHOR

MATTHEW
STEEL

“I did not make this album to invent a character. I made it to stop hiding inside one.”

Matthew Steel is the Sydney artist behind ’astroscales’ presents—a songwriter, storyteller and world-builder turning lived experience into sound, image and shared space.

CUSTOM MADE draws its central metaphor from his father’s panel-beating workshop, opened in 1989. What began as a family memory became a language for identity: what dents us, what covers us, what protects us—and what finally lets us be seen.

THE ALBUM STORY

FOUR ACTS.
ONE SELF,
AUTHORED.

ACT I

THE DAMAGE

Before you can remake anything, you have to see what shaped it.

THE WORKSHOP · FACTORY SETTINGS · MATCH THE COLOUR · PANEL BEATEN

ACT II

THE PREPARATION

The hidden work. The layers no one applauds, but everything depends on.

PRIMER · UNDERCOAT

ACT III

THE FINISH

Not perfection. Recognition. The moment the reflection finally belongs to you.

CUSTOM MADE · HIGH GLOSS · AS IS

ACT IV

THE ROAD

Creation leaves the workshop. A self-authored life has to be driven.

CLEAR COAT · CURB APPEAL · ROAD READY

WHY SHOULD I CARE?

Because you have had factory settings too.

A name someone called you. A role you learnt to perform. A colour chosen before you understood you had a choice.

CUSTOM MADE is Matthew’s story, but its invitation belongs to anyone who has ever felt overpainted, underestimated or unfinished. You do not have to become somebody else. You may only need to see who has been waiting underneath.

WHAT WILL YOU MAKE
OF YOURSELF?

’ASTROSCALES’ PRESENTS

CUSTOM MADE

Industrial noir. Glossy synths. Body-driven club rhythm.
A little grease. A little glamour. A lot of “finally, this is me.”

25·07·2026

ENTER THE MUSIC