Matthew Houck aka Phosphorescent
Singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Matthew Houck was born in 1980 and grew up in Huntsville, Alabama. He moved to Athens, Georgia around the turn of the century and began making music solo under the Phosphorescent moniker. Early output from the project was at times more drifting and experimental, filtering Houck's plaintive folk and country songwriting through layers of fuzzy production. This style informed his 2005 album for Misra Records, Aw Come Aw Wry. By this time, Houck had left Georgia for Brooklyn, New York and Houck had signed to Dead Oceans. While still touched by a woozy, ungrounded approach, the songwriting also began a more focused move away from experimental urges and into more polished material.