C'est La Vie

LPA

1. Black Moon / Silver Waves
2. C’est La Vie No.2
3. New Birth In New England
4. There From Here
5. Around The Horn

LPB

1. Christmas Down Under
2. My Beautiful Boy
3. These Rocks
4. Black Waves / Silver Moon

First new Phosphorescent album in 5 years. Matthew Houck's most grand and varied album to date. Recorded in Nashville at Matthew Houck’s own Spirit Sounds Studio, C’est La Vie reveals a crystallization of what made Muchacho such a breakout — a little sweetness and a little menace, sometimes boot-stomping and sometimes meditative. A lot of life was lived between these records: Houck became a father (twice), built his studio, escaped New York. And C’est La Vie does have a hefty, career-spanning feel. But there’s a newfound wisdom, too, a deeper well for all that livin’. The magic of Matthew Houck’s music has always been the way he weaves shimmering, almost golden-sounding threads through elemental, salt-of-the-earth sounds. It’s not experimental, exactly, but it’s singular and it’s definitely not traditional. That knack, the through-line across the Phosphorescent catalogue, is front and centre here.