It’s a major change from the full-band effort that was 2010’s Here’s to Taking it Easy and his 2009 Willie Nelson tribute To Willie. “Song for Zula” is built around a swarm of strings and an upbeat electronic pulse, with Houck’s lightly cracking voice smoothed over by thick whorls of synth. They didn’t seem like songs that could just be strummed on a guitar.” Now we can hear the first taste of Phosphorescent’s sixth LP, which Houck has dubbed Muchacho (due out March 2013 via Dead Oceans), and that beautiful strangeness is plenty evident. ![]() ![]() Otherwise, they would have just fallen flat. ![]() When SPIN visited Phosphorescent’s Matthew Houck in his Brooklyn studio last month, the Alabama-bred alt-country experimentalist explained of his new album that, “Several of these songs, I think, had to be produced in a strange way.
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