Recommending this one is easy - Scott Matthews is a singer-songwriter who has a beautiful voice, takes influences from Led Zeppelin and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Tim Buckley and Van Morrison, and writes dignified, worldly ballads.
!!!JEFF BUCKLEY COMPARISON ALERT!!!
And yet, Matthews holds up against Buckley. That's the shocking thing. "Elusive", in particular, stands up to anything on Grace, and as such was probably the best single of 2006. Elsewhere, Matthews spends 18 tracks displaying a frightening natural gift just coming into bloom. Give him some experience and a bigger record collection, and let's see where he ends up. Scott Matthews might just become the singer-songwriter that defines his genre in the '00s.
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