Phosphorescent’s Matthew Houck has shared a second track from his forthcoming album C’est La Vie out October 5th on Dead Oceans. Called ‘Christmas Down Under,’ the surrealist, pedal steel-laced slow burner is available for streaming and download:https://phosphorescent.ffm.to/cestlavie
Listen below:
C’est La Vie is the highly anticipated follow-up to Houck’s acclaimed 2013 LP Muchacho It chronicles a life-altering period during which he fell in love, started a family, relocated from New York to Nashville, and built a new studio from the ground up. The album’s lead single, ‘New Birth in New England,’ has garnered early raves everywhere from FADER, Stereogum, and Pitchfork, who observed that Houck “writes unguardedly about parenthood and adulthood, falling down and growing up, and the images of heaven and hell we create for ourselves….’C’est La Vie’ is earthbound by a hard-won sense of belonging.”
The track also scored the album a place in New York Magazine’s fall music preview this week, with them calling it “a bubbly, polyphonic tune suitable for crowds in Margaritaville or on the roof of Elsewhere.”
