Matthew Houck of Phosphorescent has announced his new album Revelator, out April 5th and marking his debut for Verve Records. As a preview, he’s also shared the record’s title track.
Houck self-produced Revelator and recorded it in his own Nashville studio over the course of six months. It features collaborators including Jack Lawrence of The Raconteurs and Jim White of Dirty Three, as well as Houck’s partner, singer-songwriter/pianist Jo Schornikow. The album is billed as an exploration of “unspoken truths that come with the gravity of navigating home, partnership, and family,” contemplating the dark sides bubbling beneath one’s seemingly idyllic life.
Houck says that he considers “Revelator” to be perhaps the best song he’s ever written. “You’ve ridden beyond where you can safely touch down/ And you’re out in the void past where you could’ve had turned around,” he sings over an expectedly dreamy instrumental.
Houck self-produced Revelator and recorded it in his own Nashville studio over the course of six months. It features collaborators including Jack Lawrence of The Raconteurs and Jim White of Dirty Three, as well as Houck’s partner, singer-songwriter/pianist Jo Schornikow. The album is billed as an exploration of “unspoken truths that come with the gravity of navigating home, partnership, and family,” contemplating the dark sides bubbling beneath one’s seemingly idyllic life.
Houck says that he considers “Revelator” to be perhaps the best song he’s ever written. “You’ve ridden beyond where you can safely touch down/ And you’re out in the void past where you could’ve had turned around,” he sings over an expectedly dreamy instrumental.
- 1/24/2024
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
There is something uneasy in the full moon — some eeriness, some mystery. A monthly reminder of our infinitesimal nature, the full moon inspired the poems of Hesiod, ancient Ojibwe lunar calendars, and still today, compels amateur astrologists to charge their Amazon-bought healing crystals beneath the new-age moonlight. Now it’s moved Matthew Houck, the artful folk-rocker known as Phosphorescent, to launch the Full Moon Project, a song series wherein each month, upon the full moon (the word “month,” accordingly, has its etymological roots in the Old English word “mōna,” or...
- 12/7/2022
- by Leo DeLuca
- Rollingstone.com
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1. Phosporescent Gets Cathartic
The songs from Phosporescent’s, aka Matthew Houck,...
1. Phosporescent Gets Cathartic
The songs from Phosporescent’s, aka Matthew Houck,...
- 9/23/2019
- by Marissa R. Moss and Robert Crawford
- Rollingstone.com
Matthew Houck’s studio is located at the back of a warehouse complex in East Nashville, the sort of place that looks like a quirky crime family in a Showtime drama might store a suitcase of unmarked bills there, hiding their stash in one of the pinkish-gray structures that border a parking lot of cracked asphalt. Instead, it’s home to a pasta factory, some visual artists, a handyman’s shop and Houck’s Spirit Sounds studio, where he made C’est La Vie, his seventh LP as Phosphorescent. In...
- 10/4/2018
- by Marissa R. Moss
- Rollingstone.com
Phosphorescent stopped by The Late Late Show With James Corden on Tuesday night to play a joyous version of “New Birth in New England,” from the band’s new LP C’est La Vie.
The group’s first album in five years and first since relocating from their previous home in Brooklyn to Nashville, C’est La Vie is set to drop this Friday, October 5th via Dead Oceans. Singer and leader Matthew Houck, standing center stage in a T-shirt and baseball hat, leads the way through an ebullient, unhurried...
The group’s first album in five years and first since relocating from their previous home in Brooklyn to Nashville, C’est La Vie is set to drop this Friday, October 5th via Dead Oceans. Singer and leader Matthew Houck, standing center stage in a T-shirt and baseball hat, leads the way through an ebullient, unhurried...
- 10/3/2018
- by Jeff Gage
- Rollingstone.com
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