Matthew Howes - Love and Other Demons (2018)

Well, this has been a bit of a mission. Around four years ago I wrote a blog post about an album idea I had, an idea that had probably been bubbling for a few years before that. A lot can happen in four years and a lot has happened in four years. I think it’s fair to say my life is in a different place now than it was then, not necessarily a place that I either wanted or expected, but then again not a bad place to be either. If this seems like I’m skirting around what I actually mean or what I feel that’s because I most definitely am!

For me, it’s much easier to express complex and difficult emotions in the abstract as songs than it is in person. In person I always worry that anything I espouse comes across as my concrete belief, but feelings are far more slippery than that. They’re not definitive and they are not easily articulated. They change. In song, I’m once removed. I can be changeable, but the song remains the same. Quicksilver preserved in amber.

So I’ll let the music do the talking. If it resonates and means something to you then you don’t need the details of my life to tell you how to feel.

And so, here we are. Love and Other Demons are real.



Track List:
01. Human Is Human
02. Broken
03. She Starts Fires
04. Average Avenue
05. The Only One
06. Do I Look Like I Care
07. Nights in Armour
08. Cold Concrete
09. Why We Were Lovers
10. The Smallest Love Song

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