Matangi and the Art of the One-Producer Indie Pop Single on IT WASN'T MY FAULT!
Matangi and the Art of the One-Producer Indie Pop Single on IT WASN’T MY FAULT!
Indie Pop in Two Minutes Forty-Five, Written by Four and Finished by One Vancouver Producer
The title arrives in capitals with an exclamation mark. The Instagram bio beside it then trails off into a row of question marks. Matangi presents IT WASN’T MY FAULT! as a protest with a question hanging over it. Underneath that styling, Matangi has built an indie pop single with a small, tightly credited team.
Matangi is in the playlist below, filed among our indie, bedroom and lo-fi pop picks, with the coverage kept on Matangi’s artist profile. IT WASN’T MY FAULT! came to this desk through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news desks. Hit play, then keep reading for the credits behind the look.
Four Songwriters and a Muse Credit Behind the Matangi Indie Pop Single IT WASN’T MY FAULT!
The Credits as Part of the Look
The credits sit in the captions of the announcement posts, and they are generous. Four people wrote the song: Matangi and three collaborators credited by their Instagram handles, pjs.journal, ediedvies and venus._.chic. A fifth name gets a line of its own. zoe.l.gardner is credited simply as the muse.
That muse credit is a styling decision as much as a thank-you. It turns the backstory into part of the release. Both announcement posts pushed the same idea. Each invited fans to comment if they wanted the story behind the song.
A Short Song With a Visual Team
The single runs 2:45, and Apple Music files it under pop. It is also the shortest of Matangi’s three singles so far. Nexus ran 3:05 in November 2024, and White Wine ran 3:17 in April 2025.
The visuals had their own credits. One announcement post credits celinamedia with the video footage, the same handle credited with the White Wine cover. The other credits penguinmaster2002 with the video and carries the tags #blender and #weirdcore, while the first was tagged #liminal. Taken together, the presentation points one way: dreamlike, slightly uncanny, and very online.
The release also carried nerves. Before a BTS concert in Tampa Bay, Matangi posted about having many fears around releasing music. The same post hoped this song would be a braver step into new opportunities.
One Vancouver Producer Took the Matangi Indie Pop Single From Production to Master
Every Stage in One Pair of Hands
On this single, one person handled the whole technical chain. Both announcement posts credit dun, who works online as dunmakesmusic, with producing, engineering, mixing and mastering the track.
dun’s own Instagram bio describes an indie and dream pop producer based in Vancouver. It promises to turn dreams into reverb-soaked major-seventh chords. On SoundBetter, the same producer lists work as a producer, artist and mix and master engineer. The speciality is dream, indie and bedroom pop, plus lofi.
That profile also fills in the background. dun started out on violin at the age of four and plays electric guitar, drums, bass and piano. Meanwhile, a song-a-day challenge on Instagram and TikTok shows the working speed.
The Bedroom Pop Lineage
dun names two inspirations, and both started out making music in their bedrooms. Dayglow began as Sloan Struble’s home project, and its debut album Fuzzybrain arrived in 2018. keshi built an audience in the same way, with home-made releases such as the 2019 EP skeletons. Those two names say more about the production direction than a genre tag does.
The single before this one took a different route. White Wine was produced by Matt Piano, another Vancouver producer, whose own bio jokes about not actually playing the piano. So the last two singles went to two different Vancouver producers. On IT WASN’T MY FAULT!, every stage stayed with one of them.
Where to Hear the Indie Pop of Matangi, From Nexus and White Wine to IT WASN’T MY FAULT!
Start with the latest single, then go back through the catalogue. On Spotify, White Wine is the most played of the three, with 1,567 plays as of 17 September 2026. The listener map is spread wide. Matangi’s top Spotify cities are Amsterdam, Bucharest, Montreal, Johannesburg and Buffalo.
So this is a release for listeners who like indie pop made by small independent teams. It also suits anyone who enjoys following an artist while the image is still taking shape. Fans of Dayglow and keshi will recognise the lineage the producer is working from.
AltPop.News curator team: “IT WASN’T MY FAULT! earns its place on our alt-pop desk because it treats a small release like a full production. Matangi’s Instagram holds just fourteen posts, yet the credits still make room for four writers, a producer, two video makers and a muse.”
Listen to IT WASN’T MY FAULT! on Spotify. Follow Matangi on Spotify, Apple Music and Instagram.
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