Muchacho

by Phosphorescent

Muchacho cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 19 March 2013
  • Label: Dead Oceans
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 46:33
  • Community rating: 3.92/5 from 6 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Matthew Houck recorded his sixth studio album in a small Brooklyn space after a period of intense personal turmoil. The result incorporates drum machines, synthesizers, and lush brass into his ragged Americana sound, achieving a sprawling, cosmic country atmosphere.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, atmospheric, acoustic, folk, desert, male-vocals, ballad, storytelling

Tracklist

  1. Sun, Arise! (An Invocation, An Introduction) (3:09)
  2. Song for Zula (6:10)
  3. Ride On / Right On (3:44)
  4. Terror in the Canyons (The Wounded Master) (4:05)
  5. A Charm / A Blade (5:20)
  6. Muchacho's Tune (4:19)
  7. A New Anhedonia (4:03)
  8. The Quotidian Beasts (7:04)
  9. Down to Go (5:16)
  10. Sun's Arising (A Koan, An Exit) (3:18)

Credits

  • Phosphorescent - primary artist
  • Jeffrey Bailey - bass
  • Christopher Marine - drums, drums, bongos
  • Bobby Hawk - fiddle, strings
  • Ricky Ray Jackson - pedal steel guitar, pedal steel guitar, electric guitar, lead guitar, pedal steel guitar, lead guitar [electric lead right]
  • Scott Stapleton - synthesizer, piano, synthesizer, piano, clavinet
  • Jon Natchez - bass saxophone, bass clarinet
  • David Torch - bongos, percussion, congas

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