Matthew

Everybody Down (Rykodisc)
by Tim Den

Weepy but not wussy, confrontational but with an angelic voice, Matthew follows Jeff Buckley and Ours’ footsteps in constructing evocative songs with mood instead of brute force. Acoustic guitars and falsettos dip up-and-down your spine, seducing you one moment and condemning you the next. While the quartet’s songs show nothing but good signs with this debut, I have a feeling their true potential is yet to come…
(PO Box 141 Gloucester, MA 01931)