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Dec 10, 2012 Phosphorescent By Mike Hilleary

Phosphorescent, the musical project of songwriter Matthew Houck, has announced the arrival of a new album titled, Muchacho. The follow-up to the artist’s 2010 LP Here’s to Taking It Easy, the new record will see release in March on Dead Oceans.

According to a press release “as 2012 turned, Houck’s life began to unravel. A domestic crisis meant he had to find another apartment/studio at short notice, in the dead of winter, in accommodation-squeezed New York.” During this period Houck says “songs just started happening.” In the middle of “a freak-out” Houck booked a flight for Mexico. On a plane that was leaving three hours later, he finished writing the rest of the record in a little hut on the beach in Tulum, on the Yucatan Peninsula.

Down below you can view the full tracklist for the album, as well as listen to the included track “Song for Zula.”

Muchacho:

Sun, Arise! (An Invocation, An Introduction)
Song for Zula
Ride On/Right On
Terror in the Canyons (The Wounded Master)
A Charm/ A Blade
Muchacho’s Tune
A New Anhedonia
The Quotidian Beasts
Down to Go
Sun’s Arising (A Koan, An Exit)

(www.myspace.com/phosphorescent)