Lorrie Matheson

It’s not that singer-songwriter Lorrie Matheson defies categorization on his highly anticipated second album – it’s more that he simply ignores it. Matheson has clearly come into his own as a multi-instrumentalist, a producer, a vocalist, and a writer, creating more textured arrangements and more nuanced songs. Yet with this growing confidence comes a sense of playfulness, aided and abetted by enormously skilled young percussionist Chris Dadge (Bent Spoon Ensemble). It’s a combination of maturation and rejuvenation that produces not only the most fully developed songs that Matheson has ever written, but also some of the most honest, most insightful, and most memorable.