Artist Lounge: Matthew Good
Moggers' favorites by Matthew Good
Subscribe to feed
What? Another Matt Good song? What is wrong with Barrie, you must be asking. No Mog posts in ages and then two about the same guy?!
Well, Matt Good is rather unique in my music pantheon, someone who came along right at the beginning of my teenage years, whose songwriting has matured along with me. His songs always seem relevant to me, especially since they always change their context.
So here is Born Losers, which must be a single (I really have no idea, being away from Canad... MORE
Every couple of years this Canadian troubadour (and blogger) arrives with an album that reminds me of why his songwriting has been so important to me for over ten years now.
This new album, produced after a difficult divorce, is especially frank, and contains some of his darkest songs since "The Audio of Being," an album that caused the break-up of his own band.
This stuff is earnest and heart-felt, with delicious tinges of bitterness. This is the opening song to the album, t... MORE
Whoa.
Already I've been in this weird 'place' where the only things that sound right are favorite albums from the 90's (Candlebox's Lucy, anyone?), Matthew Good's Hospital Music and Radiohead's In Rainbows ... but now along comes news of Crash Pryor's passing, spinning my ears into a mess that only mournful music can sooth.
I'm sure I'll put an MP3 here later. I just don't know what, and I don't know when.... MORE





enlarge




