Matthew & The Atlas - Temple [CD]

Bringing together the naked emotion of Sufjan Stevens and the melancholy of Communion's Bear's Den, Temple is a cathartic expression of Matthew Hegarty's own fears and feelings, bound together by an honesty that makes it bracingly easy to connect to. The album took just 3 months: Sketched out in Hegarty's UK home studio, and recorded in Nashville with Brian Holl and Eric Hillman, electronic folk act turned production duo, Foreign Fields - they crafted one of the first astounding albums of 2016.