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The music of Thin Lear comes into focus like a specter in the dark – beckoning and restless – an outstretched hand from the dimness of a room. The moniker of NJ songwriter Matt Longo, Thin Lear has taken on many forms since the 2020 debut, Wooden Cave (PopMatters’ Best Albums of the Year), with different collectives of collaborators, producers, and players.
Last year's A Beach of Nightly Glory EP, produced by Matthew E. White (Natalie Prass), received praise from spots like Bandcamp Daily, Under the Radar, and Talkhouse, with PopMatters regarding it as "...a superb showcase for Longo's immense songwriting abilities...a throwback to the timeless compositions of artists like Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison, and David Berman."
His second new EP in under a year, A Shadow Waltzed Itself, illustrates the moment one recognizes that something of great value (a person, a community, a sense of self) has quietly moved away from them. Through dark waltzes, and a late-night sonic palette, Longo unfurls stories of those reckoning with this shuddering realization – either fighting against it or simply letting go.
[O]n par with the albums that inspired it: Leonard Cohen's dark backroom soliloquies and the more bittersweet moments of Harry Nilsson's drifty pop." -Fred Thomas, AllMusic
"...sophisticated rock music tempered with soaring chamber pop...an undeniable gift for melody." -JJ Skolnik, Bandcamp Daily
Last year's A Beach of Nightly Glory EP, produced by Matthew E. White (Natalie Prass), received praise from spots like Bandcamp Daily, Under the Radar, and Talkhouse, with PopMatters regarding it as "...a superb showcase for Longo's immense songwriting abilities...a throwback to the timeless compositions of artists like Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison, and David Berman."
His second new EP in under a year, A Shadow Waltzed Itself, illustrates the moment one recognizes that something of great value (a person, a community, a sense of self) has quietly moved away from them. Through dark waltzes, and a late-night sonic palette, Longo unfurls stories of those reckoning with this shuddering realization – either fighting against it or simply letting go.
[O]n par with the albums that inspired it: Leonard Cohen's dark backroom soliloquies and the more bittersweet moments of Harry Nilsson's drifty pop." -Fred Thomas, AllMusic
"...sophisticated rock music tempered with soaring chamber pop...an undeniable gift for melody." -JJ Skolnik, Bandcamp Daily
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