British songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Matthew Hegarty (AKA Matthew And The Atlas) is pleased to announce a headline Belfast show at Voodoo on Wednesday, May 29th 2019. Their new album ‘Morning Dancer’ is due for release in May of this year.
After the dreamy and textured Americana of his To The North and Kingdom of Your Own EPs had built him a cult global following, Hegarty released the debut album Other Rivers in April 2014, prompting Q to call him “the British Bon Iver”.
Recorded in East Nashville with Brian Holl and Eric Hillman from Foreign Fields, His latest album, Temple (22.04.16) is a cathartic expression of its writer’s own fears and feelings. New parenthood inevitably colours Hegarty’s perspective on the world – a world whose natural wonders seem terminally threatened by the relentless march of technology and apparent human advancement. The “black figure” (the nebulous being that first appeared to him after he was near-fatally stabbed in an attack) returns from Other Rivers to again loom over parts of Temple, and throughout the album its protagonists seem to be striving, aching even, to find their place in amongst it all. But ultimately there’s hope in the darkness; redemption to be found in honest human relationships.
The album’s themes inspired Hegarty to team up with photographer friend Dave Watts. The pair travelling alone to various remote locations across Cornwall and Somerset, with Watts shooting Hegarty in the wilderness, a tiny figure moving through a vast, desolate landscape – a small man in a big world.
Matthew And The Atlas released the Cali EP in May 2018.
Very much looking forward to this tomorrow in Voodoo! Seen them support Bears Den in Oslo and they blew me away!