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.

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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.

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VINYL FORMAT. Brazos' Martin Crane wrote the songs on Phosphorescent Blues during a two-week span of peaceful euphoria. Writing on classic themes - transient love, friendship, communities - Crane evokes the loss of youthful illusion and the calm, uneasy accomplishment of that loss. Like the adapted Adrienne Rich poem The Observer, the album tries to break free from the constraints of the city it's grown into, escaping by turning inward. Brazos has had a solid two years worth of buzz in Austin since their f...   [ read more ]

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