Here's to Taking It EasyPhosphorescent · 2010

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7.3

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Tracklist

1It's Hard To Be Humble (When You're From Alabama)2Nothing Was Stolen (Love Me Foolishly)3We'll Be Here Soon 4The Mermaid Parade 5I Don't Care If There's Cursing 6Tell Me Baby (Have You Had Enough)7Hej, Me I'm Light 8Heaven, Sittin' Down 9Los Angeles

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Critic Reviews

pitchfork

8.2

“After his Willie Nelson-inspired record, Matthew Houck stays firmly in the world of country music rather than the wilderness folk he'd previously crafted.”

rollingstone

6.0

“"Apart from the things I touched/Nothing got broke all that much," sings Matthew Houck on "Nothing Was Stolen (Love Me Foolishly)," a harmony-laced heartbreaker on his fifth album. Houck, the Brooklyn-via-Georgia songwriter who performs as Phosphorescent, nails the ramble-tamble country-rock sound of Gram Parsons and Neil Young records, mixing rockers like the sax-fueled boogie "It’s […]”