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Phosphorescent's new album "Muchacho"!

Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 10:13 pm
by basecamp
Phosphorescent, the musical project of songwriter Matthew Houck, has announced the arrival of a new album titled, Muchacho!
Have a first listen via NPR
http://www.npr.org/2013/03/03/172979166 ... t-muchacho

An Alabama native now based in Brooklyn, Phosphorescent's Matthew Houck sings with wryly weary raggedness to suit his late-at-night laments. Even when their arrangements feel grand and fleshed-out, epic and searching, Houck's best songs come off like intimate conversations with a confidante — wise and soft, and warmed by experience.

The gorgeous new Muchacho, out March 19, finds a way to aim heavenward while still hitting nerves closer to home. In a series of humbly soaring ballads that drift and bloom over five, six and even seven minutes, the band's sixth album captures a bit of the grandiose loveliness of Phosphorescent's choirboy-folk peers in Fleet Foxes and My Morning Jacket. But even as it aims for celestial bliss in songs with titles like "Sun, Arise! (An Invocation, An Introduction)," Phosphorescent remains rooted in dusty, personal, earthbound concerns, thanks in large part to the winningly roughed-up, beautifully human voice at its core.

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Re: Phosphorescent's new album "Muchacho"!

Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 9:25 am
by basecamp
Paste Magazine names Phosphorescent’s “Song For Zula" the #1 Song of 2013 (So Far)!
To see the full list click here:
http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/list ... r.html?p=2

http://youtu.be/b35kCI_GVr8

1. Phosphorescent – “Song For Zula”
From the album Muchacho
There’s no true chorus in Phosphorescent’s “Song For Zula,” but every verse has the effect of one. Matthew Houck has created a masterwork with swelling strings, wide-open atmospherics, an echoing bass line and lyrics that beg to be unpacked. It’s a song of heartbreak from the perspective on someone trying to steel themselves from opening themselves back up to the hurt. He sings: “Some say love is a burning thing / That it makes a fiery ring / All that I know love a caging thing / Just a killer come to call from some awful dream.” Like the best songs of lost love, there’s beauty in the brokenness.

Re: Phosphorescent's new album "Muchacho"!

Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 9:51 am
by Caren
Well deserved. Phosphorescent is special, one of a kind.

Re: Phosphorescent's new album "Muchacho"!

Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2013 10:11 pm
by basecamp
Phosphorescent's performance of "Song for Zula" on Jimmy Fallon last night!

http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com ... la/n35867/