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Phosphorescent’s 2013 album Muchacho spent a week in the UK Top 75 Charts, now sitting at over 164 million Spotify streams. The 2024 release Revelator saw him confront his self-doubt and anxieties about the future whilst reclaiming a child-like wonder towards the world, praised by Aquarium Drunkard as “an album that transmutes the doubt and frustrations of the last few years into sounds that soar.”
An album of elegant gravity, Revelator captures some of the drastic life changes Houck experienced the past five years. Unfolding over nine songs, the underlying melancholy of Phosphorescent’s music remains, extending seamlessly from the stories begun in previous works Muchacho and C’est La Vie. Mastering his unique blend of rugged soundscapes and ethereal atmospherics, the earnest album wrestles with an ongoing, ambient sense of dread whilst looking to a new horizon.
Challenging his usual tendencies during the creative process and...