Here's to Taking it Easy

"Houck in hard-drinking, loving-and-losing, tortured and lovelorn mode and all the better for it... incredibly honest, very human, emotionally brave, musically coherent, with moments of real poetry."
- The Line Of Best Fit

"An album that mixed tragedy with beauty."
- The Guardian

Matthew Houck's one-man-band Phosphorescent has been plying his alt-country blend of plaintive howling and stirring atmospherics since the early '00s, drawing favourable comparisons with Neil Young and Will Oldham.

'Here's To Taking It Easy' follows 'To Willie', a Willie Nelson covers album, and is Phosphorescent's first original material since 2007's dark, deeply moving 'Pride'. An entirely different mood is present on the new album, with Houck's full touring band on board, and the influence of boozy rock as apparent as that of forlorn singer-songwriters.

Recorded in the band's hometown of Brooklyn with outside mixing assistance from Stuart Sikes (White Stripes, Cat Power, Loretta Lynn), this album breathes with life like nothing else Phosphorescent has ever done before.

'Here's To Taking It Easy' brings everything together for Phosphorescent; a classic that could be from another era...