The two least inventive reference points to call out for emotional singer-songwriter dudes are Jeff Buckley and Nick Drake … but if you listen to “Elusive” and come up with one better, let us know (someone said Chris Whitley?). We’ll go Drake in the guitar (and tuning, maybe?), Jeff in the tenor timbre and harmony haunts. Scott comes with building UK buzz thanks to this track beating the A*Monks for the Ivor Novello Award) — and it’s Matthews’s best shot at nabbing the Buckley lover in you without you branding him “derivative.” Give it a shot, this one’s lovely.
Passing Stranger is tentatively scheduled for US release 9/25 on Universal Republic.
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James Blunt with a better record collection…
he also did a nice Smiths cover of ‘The Boy with the Thorn in his Side.’ Though I can’t find the mp3 anywhere…
http://boss.streamos.com/qtime/labels/universalrepublic/scottmatthews/audio/thorn_his_side.mov
It’s a good song, but the rest of the album didn’t really impress me.
Scott was great at SXSW . . . and he’s a really nice guy. Too bad he played after Amy Winehouse and the whole placed emptied out. He’s supposed to be returning to the States in later summer/early fall. Perhaps the tabla player will join him also.
brain…can’t…process…songs…with lyircs like: “there’s nothing fake”…brain…shutting…down….
…death
that was me! i said chris whitley! me ME!