The sound is bigger, airier, and more mysterious than anything the band's ever done. ![]() On "Song For Zula," off of the upcoming Muchacho, he sounds like he's died and woken up on an unknown shoreline somewhere. At every step of the way, he's sounded dazed, trembling, and awestruck: his voice, a small, hiccupping drawl, is a fragile instrument with a thousand built-in soul catches, and he hits every single one like a drunk tumbling down a staircase. Matthew Houck, the man behind Phosphorescent, has meandered, like the dazed post-hippie soul that he is, from extreme pastoralism (2007's Pride, which sounded like the work of an agrarian tribe that had never seen electricity) to extreme debauchery (2010's soused, country-rock tumble Here's to Taking It Easy) and back again.
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