Phosphorescent: Here's to Taking It Easy | CD review

(Dead Oceans)Look closely at the cover of Phosphorescent's – aka Matthew Houck's – fourth album, and you'll find what looks like a snarling wolf floating menacingly above a hazy photo of palm trees. This idea of something sinister never being far from the surface runs throughout Houck's first full-band album; his crumpled, Neil Youngesque croon wearily mumbling lyrics such as "Apart from the things I touched, nothing got broke all that much," on the gauzy country of Nothing Was Stolen (Love ...

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