Phosphorescent announces intimate London solo show on 30 January

Matthew Houck/Phosphorescent is playing a solo show on 30 January, 2013 at St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, London, NW1 1UL. He will be performing songs from his forthcoming and highly anticipated album Muchacho.  There are just 40 pairs of tickets available for this show – to purchase, please go to https://www.facebook.com/Phosphorescentmusic. These tickets will sell very quickly and are available on a first come, first served basis.

Muchacho is released on 18 March via Dead Oceans. You can hear lead track ‘Song for Zula’ here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcdOLKx2XG8

Artist: Phosphorescent
Title: Muchacho album
Label: Dead Oceans
Release Date: 18 March 2013
Formats: CD/LP/Digital
Cat Number: DOC050
Distribution: PIAS
Website: www.deadoceans.com

Nearly three years on from his breakthrough album Here’s To Taking It Easy, Phosphorescent returns to the fray with his most stunning record yet: Muchacho. During the last album’s ‘cycle’, one could almost hear jaws hitting the floor witnessing a live band of such infinite verve. Not only did the album draw high praise in the form of Mojo’s ‘Album of the Month’ (#8 End of Year), Sunday Times & The Independent ‘Albums of the Week’, hit Rough Trade’s Top 5 Best of the Year, but the band also supported The National over the course of three sold out nights at Brixton Academy, a show that The Independent gave 5/5 and called “a sublime, joyous gig”.

Muchacho reprises the understated melancholia and sensuous minimalism of Pride, while kicking up a little of Here’s To Taking It Easy’s dust, but it also strikes out into more adventurous waters via rhythm and electronic textures.
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The album is perfectly framed by ‘Sun, Arise! (An Invocation, An Introduction)’ and ‘Sun’s Arising (A Koan, An Exit)’, the opening and closing tracks respectively. Sweet, healing and hugely potent in their hymnal simplicity, they not only recognise the diurnal rhythm that governs our existence, but also remind us that however dark things might get, the light will always reappear.

If losing one’s way results in something as lustrous as the first album taster ‘Song for Zula’, more artists should find life’s maze and walk around for an indefinite period. It is such a glorious gem that unfolds with Houck’s cracked vocal stalking the perimeters unabashed. And this amidst an album positively riddled with highlights like ‘Terror in the Canyons’ and superlative ‘A Charm/A Blade’; all barreling piano and stabby horns galore.

It’s indicative of Houck’s distinctive talent, dedication to his work and trust in his muse, then, that a temporary hurdle didn’t become a serious block. “I got clear of it by just getting to work on the recording,” he says, simply. Sleeves rolled. Resolve fixed. Muchacho delivered.

Praise for Here’s to Taking It Easy:
‘Album of the Month’ Mojo
‘CD of the Week’ Sunday Times
‘Album of the Week’ The Independent
“A bold record, steeped in the golden, rich sounds of classic rock and country” 4/5 Uncut
“A mouthwatering harvest of Gene Clark and Neil Young’s fantasy offspring” 4/5 Q
“Phosphorescent has too much ethereal otherness to be dismissed as mere alt. Country” 8/10 NME
“Uniformly excellent” Independent On Sunday
“An album that constantly mixes tragedy with beauty” 4/5 The Guardian