Indoor Enthusiast, the third record from Tuesday the Sky, the instrumental-driven project from guitarist Jim Matheos, will arrive October 24, 2025. With 11 songs of pure Matheos playing and passion, it features Dutch drummer Dennis Leeflang on “The Nearest Exit May be Behind You,” “Bend Toward Light,” and “Set Fire to the Stars.”
Matheos, famed for his work with progressive metal giants Fates Warning, alongside projects such as OSI and his collaboration with John Arch, Arch/Matheos, planted the seeds of Tuesday the Sky around 2016. The impetus came from a Fates Warning bonus track that Matheos felt didn’t fit for the band. He kept writing in that vein, and the result was Tuesday the Sky. The initial offering was 2017’s Drift, a record that drew influence from the likes of Brian Eno, Sigur Ros, Boards Of Canada, and Explosions In The Sky.
The second Tuesday the Sky album was 2021’s The Blurred Horizon, a mixture of ambient, electronica, post-rock, and more. The Blurred Horizon is perhaps best described as a beautiful record, having a natural grace to it. The closing track “Everything Is Free” is a cover of a Gillian Welch and David Rawlings and the only song with vocals, supplied by Tim Bowness.
Indoor Enthusiast is entirely instrumental, produced and mixed by Matheos, and mastered by Jacob Hansen. The guitarist’s TTS work begins differently from writing for his other bands.
As Matheos has previously noted, “A lot of it starts with sounds, interesting sounds that catch my attention, so I have lots of different effects and amps up in the studio. Often that’ll lead to different chords, progressions, or melodies.” Fates Warning, however, generally kicks off with a riff, a chorus, and melody lines. With everything he writes, from Indoor Enthusiast to Fates Warning music, Matheos asks, “As a listener, does this interest me?’ I usually just go with my gut instinct. If it’s interesting to me, then there’s going to be someone else out there who’s going to find it interesting as well.”
