Matthew Houck's first new Phosphorescent release in five years chronicles a life-altering period which saw him fall in love, start a family, leave New York for Nashville, and build a studio from the ground up. With a focus on translating these profound experiences to music as intuitively as he could, Houck pushes the boundaries of what a Phosphorescent record can sound like, balancing the earthy and the incandescent, the troubled and the serene, creating his own musical cosmos in the process. 'C'est La Vie', was produced by Houck and recorded at his Spirit Sounds Studio in Nashville, newly built specifically with these sessions in mind. The album was mixed by Matthew and Vance Powell (Jack White, Chris Stapleton, Arctic Monkeys). 'C'est La Vie' is Phosphorescent's seventh studio LP and follows the 2013 Phosphorescent album `Muchacho,' Houck's best-reviewed and best-selling album to date featuring the undeniable standout track "Song For Zula." `C'est La Vie' reveals a crystallization of what made `Muchacho' such a breakout _ a little sweetness and a little menace, sometimes boot-stomping and sometimes meditative. The magic of Matthew Houck's music has always been the way he weaves shimmering, almost golden-sounding threads through elemental, salt-of-the-earth sounds. It's not experimental, exactly, but it's singular and it's definitely not traditional. That knack, the through-line across the Phosphorescent catalog, is front and center here
