I'm a music snob, let's face it. I rarely listen to new music, unless it's a band I'm friends with, or something off Burger Records, or a friend recommended them because this new band is just absolutely fucking amazing, and even then, it takes me a while to actually listen to that new band and then decide whether I like it or not. 

My brother has very strange taste in music, so I only listen to half the shit he recommends. One week, he'll send me an Indian pop ballad, and the next he'll be on a Journey flashback kick. We talk online, mainly to send each other YouTube videos, and a few weeks back, he sent me a video for a band I'd never heard of: Phosphorescent. 

Phosphorescent - "Muchacho's Tune"

Let's just say I've been a little obsessed with this song. And the lyrics really kill me: "I found some fortune, found some fame; I finally cauterized my veins. Yeah I've been fucked up, and I've been a fool." I love how melodic the song is, with the subtle piano in the background, the horn that comes in midway, and how haunting and desperate Matthew Houck's voice is, how it sinks into your bones. 

Phosphorescent is essentially Matthew Houck. In 2001, Houck began performing in Athens, Georgia under Phosphorescent, and the name just stuck. In 2003, Houck recorded A Hundred Times or More under the Athens, Georgia label Warm Records. Since then, he's recorded seven albums. The last one, Muchacho, off Dead Oceans, was released in March of 2013. 

The end.