Phosphorescent shares video for new single ‘Impossible House’
PHOSPHORESCENT SHARES VIDEO FOR NEW SINGLE ‘IMPOSSIBLE HOUSE’
ANNOUNCES TOUR INCLUDING SHOW AT LONDON’S KOKO IN AUGUST
PLAYS THIS YEAR’S END OF THE ROAD FESTIVAL
NEW ALBUM REVELATOR OUT 5 APRIL VIA VERVE / DECCA RECORDS
“Outstanding return”
9/10 Uncut
“The title track chimes with an aching, bittersweet melancholy. Amidst soft clouds of pedal steel and strings”
Mojo
“Refulgent and mature, it feels loaded with light and possibility – an apt way to welcome fans into the realm of the new album”
Clash
“Gorgeous, open-hearted”
Our Culture ‘This Week’s Best New Songs
’Watch the video for ‘Impossible House’ here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGjqI0kB3z4
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Phosphorescent’s Matthew Houck recently announced Revelator, a new album out April 5 as his debut for Verve / Decca Records. Along with the announcement he shared lead single and title-track ‘Revelator‘ and has today followed up with the video for new single ‘Impossible House’, a track Uncut declared an “instant classic” in the 9/10 review that accompanied their 6-page feature with Houck. The single comes alongside the announcement of his first UK tour in six years in August, including a show at London‘s Koko and Leeds‘ Brudenell Social Club. Houck will also perform at this year’s End of the Road Festival.
‘Impossible House’ is Houck at the peak of his powers, the culmination of years spent quietly perfecting his own sound, a pained beauty with an immaculate, warm tone. The track uses domestic imagery not as idylls, but as mechanisms of distance, grappling with the challenges of maintaining long-term partnerships. With the release of the album’s title track, Houck said, “I think it might be the best song I’ve ever written”, if that was the case for ‘Revelator’, then ‘Impossible House’ only serves to ratchet up the quality of these singles.As with ‘Impossible House’, Revelator ruminates on questions that can be difficult to answer: why a seemingly idyllic life can be defined by an ambient sense of dread, or the natural ways we drift from each other and from ourselves. But true to its title, this is a work intent on finding hard-won reclamation, reinvention and revelation in life’s day-to-day.
Produced by Houck and recorded in his Nashville studio over the course of six months, Revelator features collaborators including Jack Lawrence of The Raconteurs, Jim White of Dirty Three and Houck’s partner — singer-songwriter and pianist Jo Schornikow — who wrote an original song for the album, ‘The World Is Ending’, marking the first Phosphorescent track to be written by someone other than Houck. Elsewhere, inspiration is drawn from seeing the world anew through their children’s eyes, and a surprisingly profound (albeit mildly obscene) series of messages scrawled on a bar bathroom wall.
Revelator directly follows 2022’s The Full Moon Project, which found Houck releasing monthly covers of many of his favourite artists. The most recent Phosphorescent full-length album, 2018’s C’est La Vie, saw Houck met with praise as “outstanding” (9/10 Uncut) and “devastatingly honest and uncompromisingly beautiful” (8.5/10 The Line of Best Fit) and led to memorable television performances on Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Late Late Show.
Photo credit: Curtis Wayne Millard
High-res images are available here
Pre-order Revelator here:
https://phosphorescent.lnk.to/Revelator
Tour dates:
18 Aug – Stockholm, SE @ Debaser – Stockholm Roots
19 Aug – Olso, NO @ Cosmopolite Scene
20 Aug – Gothenburg, SE @ Pustervik
21 Aug – Tønder, DK @ Tønder Festival
22 Aug – Tønder, DK @ Tønder Festival
24 Aug – Berlin, DE @ Frannz Club
25 Aug – Utrecht, NL @ Tivolivredenburg Pandora Hall
26 Aug – Antwerp, BE @ OLT Rivierenhof27 Aug – London @ Koko
28 Aug – Leeds @ Brudenell Social Club
29 Aug – Dublin @ Whelan’s
31 Aug – 3 Sep – Larmer Tree Gardens @ End of the Road Festival
Tickets are available here:
https://www.phosphorescentmusic.com/
Revelator tracklist:
1. Revelator
2. The World Is Ending
3. Fences
4. Impossible House
5. Wide As Heaven
6. A Moon Behind The Clouds
7. All The Same
8. A Poem On The Men’s Room Wall
9. To Get It Right