Scott Matthew
Writing about Scott Matthew is like being Augustus Gloop with your greedy chops lapping at a river of superlatives. Where to start and will it ever end? The long and the short of it is: good singers hit the notes, but the best break hearts.
Beyond the sheer beauty of his voice, one of Scott’s gifts as a song writer is to marry unalloyed emotional lyrics to disarmingly charming melodies. Sophisticated without ever being “clever” his songs unfurl with the naturalness that marks out a master of his craft.
There’s an integrity in his openness with his listener that’s neither self-obsessed nor ostentatious. These are old stories, once so keenly felt, that their retelling has the weight of truth and the lightness of memories; his are songs of time-honeyed sorrows.