Live concert by the Brooklyn-based folk-rock project Phosphorescent at The Long Time in Austin.
Phosphorescent plays The Long Time on Saturday, December 5, at 7 PM. That's the project of Matthew Houck, who's based in Brooklyn, New York.
He'll be playing from Revelator, the album that came out on April 5, 2024. It opens with the title track, a song about growing tired of sadness, madness, and being a badass all the time. Houck has described the record as more open-ended and ephemeral than its predecessor, C'est La Vie, which he'd approached as a kind of autobiographical documentation. He says Revelator upends that, trading the personal record for something less knowable and more unsettled.
Musically, the project sits across folk, rock, and experimental territory. It's the kind of sound that draws comparisons to Arcade Fire, The War on Drugs, Band of Horses, Iron & Wine, Father John Misty, The Shins, Kurt Vile, My Morning Jacket, Beach House, and The Tallest Man on Earth. If you're familiar with those names, you've got a good sense of where this lands: somewhere between the singer-songwriter tradition and the more atmospheric, textured end of indie rock.
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It's a single-act bill, with Phosphorescent as the main feature. The show is at The Long Time, 5707 Dunlap Rd N, Austin, TX 78725, starting at 7 PM on Saturday, December 5.
