Phosphorescent - Pride (Deep Ocean/2007)

It's almost unreal how the Athens, GA independent scene keeps providing us amazing artists, i'll don't even start talking about the Elefant 6 cast and their annual Popfest 'cause if i do so it'll take the whole post, but just to name some besides that: the decent post rock bands Japancakes and Maserati, the hip-hop producer Danger Mouse and so much others come from the little town down south of the U.S.

Phosphorescent is Matthew Houck's alias to make what i kindly call alt-country on acid, that was the first thing that came on my mind when i listened to Pride for the first time, it's so similar, but so different from his first EP and album (The Weight of Flight from 2004, and Aw Come Aw Wry from 2005) where you could hear Will Oldham and Neil Young all over them. On Pride, well you can also hear these but, you can be sure that Houck been listening to Wooden Wand and Animal Collective a bit, and i can say that he hitted a pretty good spot in this one, Pride is surely one of the best albums of 2007.

Tracklist
01. A picture of our torn up praise
02. Be dark night
03. Wolves
04. At death, a proclamation
05. The waves at night
06. My dove, my lamb
07. Cocaine lights
08. Pride


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