made a guest appearance

The Matches made a guest appearance on MC Lars ‘s album The Graduate , released in March 2006, performing on the track “Hot Topic Is Not Punk Rock”. After a stint on that year’s Warped Tour, their second album, Decomposer , was released on Epitaph that September. The album was recorded at various studios with nine different producers, including Hurwitz, Matt Rad, Mark Hoppus of Blink-182 , Tim Armstrong of Rancid , Brett Gurewitz of Bad Religion , Nick Hexum of 311 , and John Feldmann of Goldfinger . It built on their prior pop punk sound, adding idiosyncratic elements of pop , rock , punk , and electronics . Singles were released for the songs “You (Don’t) Know Me” and “Salty Eyes”, and music videos for “Papercut Skin” and “Salty Eyes”. Hurwitz directed and came up with the concept for the “Salty Eyes” video, an homage to the D. A. Pennebaker film Dont Look Back (1967), in which Bob Dylan ‘s song ” Subterranean Homesick Blues ” plays while Dylan holds up and discards cue cards with selected words and phrases from the lyrics; in their video, the Matches replaced the cue cards with old television sets, creating a chaotic scene. A few weeks after its release, Decomposer peaked at number 18 on Billboard ‘s Independent Albums chart. Extensive touring followed: By March 2008, the Matches had done four tours of Australia (including that year’s Soundwave festival ), seven of Europe (including their first headlining club tour of the United Kingdom), and three Warped Tours.