Blog: Pop Headwound

Tennessee-by-way-of-Philadelph ia singer-songwriter Matthew Ryan has very quietly built up quite a prolific back catalog since the blue collar hard-folk of 1997's Mayday . Since then he's slipped out stark, stripped-down records, like 2001's underrated Concussion , as well as a few that dip their toes into more ethereal, modern sounds, such as 2003's Regret Over The Wires and 2007's From A Late Night High Rise . Though his gruff vocals have always seemed, to me, tailor-made for hard driving folk songs about heartache and hangovers he's never been one to rely on that [...]