{"id":17135,"date":"2013-06-15T06:06:23","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T14:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=17135"},"modified":"2013-06-15T06:06:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T14:06:23","slug":"watch-phosphorescent-perform-muchacho-songs-in-the-raw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-06\/watch-phosphorescent-perform-muchacho-songs-in-the-raw\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Phosphorescent Perform &#8220;Muchacho&#8221; Songs in the Raw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Phosphorescent<\/strong>, the brain-child of <strong>Matthew Houck<\/strong>, has one of the frontrunners for album of the year with its <strong>Muchacho<\/strong>. We&#8217;ve been partial to the band since we first heard their seminal song<strong> Cocaine Lights<\/strong>, and it&#8217;s rewarding to see the &#8220;band&#8221; fulfilling that promise.\u00a0 <strong>Muchacho<\/strong> is manned with well-wrought songs embellished with much instrumentation.\u00a0 But, as usual, the heart of these matters lies in the basic songlines and the delivery of the singer.\u00a0 Watch below as <strong>Houck<\/strong> performs three songs from <strong>Muchacho<\/strong> in the raw (including Song of the Year candidate <em><strong>Song For Zula<\/strong><\/em>) for <strong>Line of Best Fit<\/strong> and French mag <strong>Le Cargo<\/strong>.\u00a0 The lyrics alone can take your short breath away.\u00a0 Matched with Houck&#8217;s world-weary delivery, these songs can truly rend.<\/p>\n<p>You say, \u201cOh, you\u2019ll spin this heartache into gold\u201d<br \/>\nAnd I suppose but it rips my heart out don\u2019t you know.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TBa4Y0zEogc\" height=\"425\" width=\"625\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zK1lx7QFP_4?list=PLN8gUApDg8JfxB_WqP1kVA5svvoj6_UqX\" height=\"425\" width=\"625\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Watch Houck perform <em><strong>Down To Go<\/strong><\/em> for<strong> Le Cargo <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/oB4P0ao1twg\">HERE<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phosphorescent, the brain-child of Matthew Houck, has one of the frontrunners for album of the year with its Muchacho. We&#8217;ve been partial to the band since we first heard their seminal song Cocaine Lights, and it&#8217;s rewarding to see the &#8220;band&#8221; fulfilling that promise.\u00a0 Muchacho is manned with well-wrought songs embellished with much instrumentation.\u00a0 But, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}