Little Epiphany Rec.
Matt Everett : Blinking (US,2008)**°'
While still busy finishing his studies, Matt Everett in the meanwhile managed to make a new album, solo this time, with sparse help of some local friends on vocals (Caroline Maugeri:6) and piano (Caroline Rodriguez:9) but playing most of the instruments himself. Some of the songs are arranged with a fundament of strummed guitar like introverted pop-rock, with everywhere this slightly dancing melodic piano and most often more chamber-like arrangements. Just once and a while almost classical guitar arrangements occur (3) then to be absorbed by the song. Also the fine arrangements hardly come out much when the songs appear, as if then the music itself blurs into the background, the songs and voice themselves are drawn by introverted thoughts between personal thoughts and coming across opinions for conversations, mostly remain vaguely hanging there, with none of the elements coming out well, not the best equilibrium for a songwriter/musician who balances too vaguely between the one liner of elements of expressions. One of my favorite and most successful tracks is “If You Came this way” where the chamber-like arrangements come out perfectly because there’s a well balanced, perfect cooperation of the song melody adapted onto the chamber-arrangements, and also the dual voice arrangements makes it more attractive and lighter. A quiet album that demands more listens.
