Matthew E. White has just announced is debut Australian tour! Following critical praise for his first album Big Inner, released via Domino/EMI earlier this year, White is bringing his comfortingly familiar yet unique brand of soul to Australian shores for the first time this June.
Over seven elegant tracks, White and his musicians achieve the kinds of loveliness that Spiritualized, Lambchop, Cat Power and the Beta Band have tilted at, at different times in the past, and quite often missed’ – The Observer ‘Album of the Week’
Matthew E. White unfolded out of the mingled sands of Virginia Beach and Manila, the youngest son in a family that raised him barefoot between the blurred racket of that far eastern jungle city and the backyard lightning-bug-hum of a trimmed southern lawn. His first moves, from picking up a basketball to picking up a guitar, were cast in the dual glow of these latitudes. Something between them taught him to love.
Here began the lessons of Big Inner,. A meticulously crafted blend of reggae-infused folk-gospel, swirling indie pop and R&B, Big Inner is an album of firsts for Matthew E. White. He trades his guitar in for piano, the horn arrangements are his own and they speak volumes beyond the limitation of his earthbound vocabulary.
In addition to his appearance at Sydney’s Vivid Festival, Matthew E. White will be performing a special
headline show at the Northcote Social Club in Melbourne.
Matthew E. White 2013 Australian Tour
Monday June 3rd – Northcote Social Club, Melbourne
Matthew E. White will also appear at Sydney’s Vivid Festival – www.vividsydney.com
Tickets on sale now from www.handsometours.com
