Matt Holubowski unveiled his newest and fourth album, Like Flowers on a Molten Lawn, via Audiogram on March 24. It is available on vinyl and all listening and download platforms.
Matt’s new album comes to us as a vessel for his thoughtful and intricate stories. He makes us start at the end, with “End Scene,” revealed as a single last November. Then “Gardens v. Mowers,” literally portrayed as a bitter dispute between a garden and a mower and skillfully illustrates through personification, the complacency that inhabits us and sometimes pushes humans to avoidance. The sonic and lyrical journeys are numerous, as much in the sounds chosen by Holubowski as in the themes addressed. The Estonian National Symphony Orchestra knits together beautiful arrangements of three songs. Matt offers a rare track in French, “La lune est morte de rire.” The recently released single “Sandy Cove,” meanwhile, mourns the witnessing of the self-destruction of a loved one. The very comforting “I Left The Light On” is a gentle reminder that we are not alone. Matt makes us see and feel that sometimes all it takes is turning on the beacon of empathy for lost souls to find their way home.
Matt Holubowski built the universe of his new long player from the inspiring poem, Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand by EE. Cummings. For the artist, it’s about spring, which slowly and sometimes with difficulty, ends up bringing the flowers back to us: “It’s been a reminder for me…to accept that some things take a long time to come true,” says Matt The cycles of death and rebirth, large or small equivalent to seasons, ideas, eras, life, and love.
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