“An album is, or ought to be, a complete picture. It should come in waves,
changing its focal point when things get too predictable or settled.”
With this statement to Ann Powers that accompanied NPR’s premiere of
Houndmouth’s surreal, Dylanesque ballad “For No One,” singer/guitarist
Matt Myers – perhaps inadvertently – issued a mission statement for the
band’s second album. ‘Little Neon Limelight’ finds the four-piece
stretching out in every direction.
Working with producer Dave Cobb in Nashville, they were able to bring the kind
of size and warmth that does justice to this batch of songs, worked out over
eighteen months on the road, and resonant with joy, hurt, loneliness, glory: all
of human ache and loveliness.
