Blog: The Line Of Best Fit

Mat Sweet’s Boduf Songs is an act that has seemingly undergone very little evolution in its half-decade existence. Still ostensibly a one-man band, still recorded largely in Sweet’s own studio/bedroom, still churning out long, slow-burning songs that focus as much on atmosphere as they do on melodies, it’d be easy to criticise Sweet for a lack of ambition that has seen him occupy a quiet, comfortable niche and expand very little beyond. It’d be an easy, in many ways true, and in many ways a fair criticism, though one that almost wilfully misses the point [...]