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93
Muchacho recapitulates that moment of love’s collapse and catapults out into the companionable lonesome that waits.
10y
91
Muchacho is also Houck’s most accomplished release to date—his most heartrending and life-affirming, equal parts lost-love devastation and hip-swaying, horn-led exultation.
10y
88
On Muchacho, Houck gathers together everything he's attempted-- beery, rollicking country-rock, haunted tribal hymnals, regret-soaked bar room heartbreak-- and fashions it into something close to a defining statement.
10y
84
It’s rare to find a lyricist so honest and a vocalist so earnest, and when put into song it seems to Houck as if every word is vital and cathartic and necessary.
10y
80
Muchacho is a well balanced listen, one that finds Houck adding new hues to old canvases and striking gold at every turn.
10y
80
This stark honesty is much of the appeal of Muchacho, a record that finds that some things might be past fixing, but always comfortable in the knowledge that there's another sunrise on the way.
80
When the uplifting tones of the closing Sun’s Arising roll around, it’s impossible not to believe that Matthew Houck has created his finest work yet.
10y
80
No matter what happens to Phosphorescent from here on out, Muchacho is an artist setting a new standard.
10y
70
'Muchacho' is a strikingly personal album, the sound of a man recollecting and realising what he’s lost and how he can find it again.
10y
70
There probably aren’t enough moments that make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, but after the initial struggle to get into, it’s a rewarding record to return to.
10y
60
Where Pride took solitude and rendered it universal through sheer expanse and force of will, Muchacho sometimes confuses the personal with the insular.
10y
Remember listing to this a bunch with someone I'd met just before the album came out. That woman has now been my wife for the past 4 years come November.
I haven't listened to this in a long while, but I have it on now and its sounding rather great. Glad the new one came out and inspired me to re-listen.
Perhaps its that I'm more into americana now then I was back in 2013, but this thing has aged well. The second half might not be as strong as the first, but this is getting added back into ... read more
Primeira vez que ouvi a voz dele foi em 2014, assistindo no cinema o The Amazing Spider man 2. Ouvi seu álbum completo pela 1° vez 7 anos depois .. devo dizer que é um álbum muito calmante com músicas românticas, e adoro que ele usa a voz como parte do sentimento. Song For Zula é com certeza uma das melhores músicas da década passada.
Mucho cheerful & sentimental.
FAVORITE TRACKS: SONG FOR ZULA, THE QUOTIDIAN BEASTS, SUN'S ARISING (A KOAN, AN EXIT).
Primeira vez que ouvi a voz dele foi em 2014, assistindo no cinema o The Amazing Spider man 2. Ouvi seu álbum completo pela 1° vez 7 anos depois .. devo dizer que é um álbum muito calmante com músicas românticas, e adoro que ele usa a voz como parte do sentimento. Song For Zula é com certeza uma das melhores músicas da década passada.
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Track List
Total Length: 46 minutes
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Added on: December 10, 2012