Blog: Direct Current

Twenty-one-year-old Australian singer/songwriter Matt Corby has released four exceptional EP's Down Under, songs that sound like they've been cut from the same distinctive cloth of three of his most pervasive influences: iconic Brit folkie Nick Drake, legendary 90's art/rock pioneer Jeff Buckley and dramatic Irish songwriter Damien Rice. Taking in the depth and vision of Corby's atmospheric, reverbed songs, filled with simmering, spacious melodies and his remarkable Buckley-like voice, it's hard to believe that this is the same person who, at sixteen, was the runner-up in the Australian Idol competition. The loss, it appears, [...]