Keyboardist Matt Tavares leaves BadBadNotGood

BadBadNotGood keyboardist and co-founder Matthew Tavares has confirmed his departure from the group, after taking a hiatus in 2017, Exclaim reports. "This decision did not come easy however", he said in an Instagram post - "I had invested every waking hour into this project since I was 20 years old, and on-top of co-producing and co-writing the material I also engineered and mixed almost everything you've heard by the band and collaborated on all the graphic design and package design. My hands were on everything because the band was everything to me, I had made the guys and manager my family." Tavares wrote that he "made the band come before everything in my life, and as the audiences started to get larger, my happiness was diminishing". Tavares released his debut solo album 'Déjàvu' as Matty last year, as well as worked on albums from Travis Scott, Kali Uchis and Kendrick Lamar, and this year has seen him credited for work on albums by Taylor Swift and Post Malone. Since Tavares left, BBNG performed and toured with Toronto pianist James Hill on keys.