Scott Matthew - Sinking

Scott Matthew's new album, Gallantry's Favourite Son, was released in June of this year.  It is a beautiful, almost fey collection of songs from this Australian songsmith.  And how lovely to see the ukelele used so often in his music.

Sinking http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13eOVQjG0mo
of which this is a live version to show the man's talent off to best effect, is a good example of what can be found on this new album.  Still introspective and quiet as on his previous collections, you really have to have loved everything this man has done before as you won't find anything drastically different here.  But you know, that is fine by me.  Scott Matthew is good at what he does and sticks with it. 

Not to be confused with Scott Matthews, the UK singer-songwriter (so be careful about any extra lower case 's' when typing on Google or YouTube), Matthew has been described as having a melancholic, warm, sulty, adrogynous, David Bowie type of vocal.  His sound has also been likened to Anthony and the Johnsons.

http://www.scottmatthewmusic.com/