Elly Kellner

Matthews Southern Comfort: The New Mine

by Doug Collette
March 13, 2021

In hindsight, Matthews Southern Comfort's Like A Radio (MIG Music, 2018) seems to have foretold the gloom and doom of the 2020 pandemic. But the fifth album under that moniker (not counting numerous anthologies and live LPs) also spoke to the positivism of change, i.e., streaming music is 'like a radio,' but also decidedly not the same. Perhaps it's not too much of a stretch to apply a similar interpretation to the follow-up and, if so, it may well be ...