Out of Austin Texas comes Matthew Squires, a singer-songwriter who’s been laborious on the music enterprise since 2012. Squires has independently launched 9 albums since then, and his newest launch, ‘Poor Males Southeast Of Portland’, dropped on January 19, accompanied by a music video.

Squires’ earlier work has been met with crucial acclaim from the likes of Stereogum, TheNeedleDrop, GoldFlakePaint, amongst others, and his new single ought to actually observe go well with. Characterised by his distinctive vocal, in addition to politically charged lyrics, the observe is each ironic and earnest, with a satirical message geared toward Oliver Anthony, whose final summer time had a viral hit final summer time, with ‘Wealthy Males North Of Richmond’ – and an viewers predominantly inside the American proper. Squires’ sound is harking back to Larry Norman, or Tom Petty, with its drawn out vocals and highly effective acoustic guitar. The tune, claims Squires, was written by a parallel universe’s model of Oliver Anthony, named Anthony Oliver.

“Oliver Anthony informed Joe Rogan that he selected ‘Oliver’ as his stage identify in honor of his deceased grandfather. He was nostalgic for a extra harmless time, when hardworking, God-fearing white males bought somewhat respect (he forgot to say how that respect was on the expense of everybody else’s, or how it was largely enabled by unions). In the meantime, in a parallel universe, Anthony Oliver informed Roe Jogan his identify was impressed by Casey Anthony. He was nostalgic for a extra harmless time, when Individuals might nonetheless unite round our fleeting spectacles of controversy, and weren’t but confused as to which of them had been astro-turfed by proper wingers.”

Whereas it’s a poke at Oliver Anthony, the lyrics are hard-hitting and provocative, akin to,

Poor males southeast of Portland awake from their American goals,

they enlist into the tradition wars to distract them from their screams

about how they really feel about their disgrace to look their youngsters within the eyes

I suppose the tree of justice blooms upon the query “why?”

‘Poor Males Southeast Of Portland’ is a clarion name to these of us who’ve been let down by the system, who irrespective of how laborious we battle, nonetheless discover ourselves caught up in all of it, treading water, with our heads barely above the floor. It’s a tough lot we’ve been given and in plenty of respects, one we shouldn’t have, and the one method to repair this method we’re dwelling in is to battle it, to kick in opposition to the pricks, to affix the rising groundswell. We have to cease “enjoying the function that another person designed to make another person’s day”, and to take cost of our lives.

Watch the music video for ‘Poor Males Southeast Of Portland’ beneath, and discover out extra about Matthew Squires and his music on-line on Spotify, Twitter, and Bandcamp.

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