Phosphorescent
American singer-songwriter Phosphorescent (Matthew Houck) has created a fine body of work in a career of over two decades, with folk and Americana with clear hints of melancholy.
After the Pandemic he, just like many of his colleagues, needed some time to get back into the rhythm. With Phosphorescent, this was achieved through the album “The Full Moon Project” (2022), an album with covers of Nina Simone, Randy Newman and Bob Dylan.
An almost fatal case of meningitis, building a studio of his own and the intense process of writing new songs and an album followed in the years after the Pandemic. In 2024, his latest record “Revelator” came out. Houck called its title track “perhaps the best song he had ever written”. The strong auto-biographical lyrics, as well as the dreamy and melancholy nature of his folk rock and alt-country, are at the core of his music. It resulted in many gorgeous songs like “Song for Zula” and “Wolves”.
Recommended to fans of Damien Jurado Iron & Wine, The Tallest Man on Earth, Bill Callahan, Josh Ritter and The War on Drugs.
