Matt the Electrician
Written in the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021, it has more than its share of challenging moments to recount, and yet each one comes back around to the feelings of hope and resolve expressed in the albums title. And not just a little humor.
I went swimming in the ocean, but the ocean knocked me down It's all played out simply by Sever on guitar, piano, ukulele and banjo, with flourishes of things like horns, mellotron, percussion and bass provided by a few guests. He sings about watching golf on TV, a visit to the post office, further adventures with the sea, promises failed and promises kept. When he invokes travel, it's to see the realistic side of it, like staying at a Holiday Inn Express.
I woke up in the middle of the night in a Holiday Inn ExpressIt's nothing too deep, nothing too shallow, just simple songs about getting through life, hanging on to your sanity and keeping your head above water. He's not here to do major repairs, but he's sure to change a few lightbulbs for you, if you ask him to.
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We've been hearing a lot of quirky new music lately that takes the singer-songwriter genre and turns it more than a little atilt. Matt the Electrician is one of the latest curios to cross my desk. Matthew Sever is the tradesman in question, and The Ocean Knocked Me Down is his 11th album, and yet, it's the first to ever cross my path.
