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Matt Suggs | Golden Days Before They End
CD, Cycle/Konkurrent
Tekst: Alex Tobin
Publicatiedatum: 31 augustus 2000
'Golden Days Before They End' is an interesting little record. Originally released on Merge back in the US, the folks at Konkurrent have been kind enough to give European listeners the opportunity to take in what is the sound of an undoubtedly fresh young songwriter. Formerly one half of Butterglory, Kansan Suggs' songs have an irreversibly doomsday romanticism flowing deeply throughout the core of their bellies. This is no cheap Gothic sentiment, nor is it pseudo-Faulknerian doom and gloom. Instead, with song titles such as 'Skeleton Blues in B Flat Minor', 'She Kept Time to the Teardrops', and 'Farewell to a Tightrope Queen', Matt Suggs is able to combine the wayward, devil-may-care laissez-faire of a raggle-taggle-gypsy-o with articulate couplets sung in a voice not quite unlike Belle and Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch. To taunt him with such cheap comparisons, however, is akin to underpraising his songwriting. After all, there aren't many out there able to pull off singing of conquistadors and knickers (luckily not in the same song) without sounding fey, whimsical, or perversely stupid. With a distinctly rambling and haunting sound, Matt Suggs will be one to watch out for.
http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/matt-suggs/golden-days-before-they-end/177/
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