Concert Review: Matt Holubowski Sings To The Workaday Life In NYC
Most of us feel unordinary, especially, in this world, where an individual can be treated like a god, and masses of people can be treated like dirt. Many times, there is no moral reasoning to giving/ receiving kindness or fame; they simply are. In this idea, Matt Holubowski creates characters dreaming vastly while living lowly.
From “The Weatherman” to a “cheerful” song about a man committing suicide during someone else’s cigarette break, the magic of Matt’s music is that he appeals to how big and imaginative we all are despite our “ordinary” circumstance. For him, our life might not make history, but it is still making a story. There is something tragically and humbly beautiful about that notion, and it played throughout his highly ornate music/ Mercury Lounge set. He laughed that he was trying to go more “pop,” but Matt’s mind is too sparked for pop’s “sparkle.”
From his stringed arrangements to his stringing lyrics, everything about Matt Holubowski’s feels mosaically musical. It as if he cracks thousands of sonic tiles, and puzzles their colorful, glossed pieces into pictures of people’s life. His music sounds like Bon Iver married Eleanor Rigby, and they had a child that was sung a mash-up lullaby of “A Day In The Life/ For Emma.” He warps you into “everyday people’s” worlds. While they would not get Kardashian attention, you will, probably, meet and know these people better because they are you. Add on that he sings in French and trembles his body and voice as if the beauty of poetry can leave you literally shivering, and Matt Holubowski is a human force.
What I love about Matt Holubowski is that he makes the workaday life feel so emotional and detailed, which are things we, often, do not attribute to the average person. He shows we are not machines, and has a riling, cooing voice that, like a spiritual wrench, pulls out all the nailed notions claiming people are not supposed to feel. Whomever said that logic has no room for sentiment is illogical. We learn and unlearn according to how we grow our feelings through our thoughts, Matt Holubowski is the intellectual singer of such truth. For More Information On Matt Holubowski Click Here.
