Phosphorescent
Athens, GA, resident Mathew Houck is the sole member of Phosphorescent. Houck's career began in 2000 when he released the Hipolit album under the name Fillup Shack. A tour of England and Spain followed, and while the European press drew comparisons to Bob Dylan and Will Oldham, the London Evening Standard declared him "the most significant American in his field since Kurt Cobain." Houck's first release as Phosphorescent, entitled A Hundred Times or More, appeared in 2003 on the Warm label. The 2004 EP The Weight of Flight was his last rel...[more]
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VINYL FORMAT. A set of dark, meditative songs that's all the more spiritual sounding for its restrained tone. These are poems uttered in an empty field, punctuated by shouts and hollers, as if from a singer either abandoned or possessed. The lyrics are Matthew Houck's strongest ever, wrapped in washed out choral etudes that could be channeled from a rural French chapel or a solemn African tribe in prayer.
LP $12.99
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VINYL FORMAT. Insound Staff Pick - 2009! In 1975, Willie Nelson recorded To Lefty from Willie, ten songs in which Nelson paid homage to Lefty Frizell, reinterpreting his favorites from the Frizell catalog and stamping them with his unique voice. Now Phosphorescent has done the same for Willie Nelson on this recording of eleven hidden Nelson gems and lost classics. An unabashed musical love letter.
LP $13.99
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