This song is achingly beautiful.
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Wolverhampton wonderer Scott Matthews had everyone raving about his recent single Elusive. The track can be found on the singer songwriter’s debut album Passing Stranger, which was originally released earlier this year, now with the backing of his major record label. If there is any justice in the world, Matthews will a household name known for more than just one song and Capt’n Blunty would be raging with envy.
There’s a feeling that the tag singer songwriter is not one that fits comfortably with this fella. While the comparisons to Jeff Buckley are justified, it’s in the guitar playing and blending of musical styles that he excels (in the seventeen strong play list we have musical interludes).
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Scott Matthews - Passing Stranger (San Remo)
Sally Cook - 2/10/2006
IT is the norm for young, male, guitar-brandishing singer-songwriters in possession of an ounce of talent and a modicum of soul, to draw comparisons to the likes of Nick Drake and Jeff Buckley at some point in their careers.
And whilst it's all very well paying homage to these rock demi-gods, any musician worth his salt strives to be more than merely a proficient copyist.
Happily, Wolverhampton's Scott Matthews is a great deal more than a good imitation.
Though there are, unquestionably, echoes of both Drake and Buckley on debut LP Passing Stranger ' never more so than in openers Dream Song and The Fool Fooling Himself - there is so much depth here that the reference becomes somewhat eclipsed by the glorious whole of the album, which for all its influences, is uniquely Matthews.
Tabla
Strings, tabla, guitar and percussion combine to produce a wonderfully rich, textured sound, the perfect backdrop to Matthews' versatile, evocative voice.
Passing Stranger is a spectacular debut from one of Britain's most impressive new talents.
