Ivor Novello-winning singer-songwriter Scott Matthews makes his Kings Place debut performing songs from his new stripped back album Restless Lullabies.

Following Scott Matthews’ critically acclaimed album, New Skin, lauded by Robert Plant, Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien and Bella Union’s Simon Raymonde as his most courageous move yet in its Eno-esque electronica and Thom Yorke-centric uncovering, comes the sequel to its story, and the Ivor Novello award-winner is not afraid to evolve once more.

From within this freshly paved electronic landscape, Matthews’ new album, Restless Lullabies, emerges with a stark boldness that is breath taking. These phoenix songs, born from New Skin, have more to give, worthy of reincarnation, entirely reimagined by Matthews who appears dauntless, they are restless with good reason.

Now entirely unadorned, stripped of their electronic veil, the album’s organic, acoustic purity creates a subliminal listening experience. From the ethereal acapella, ‘Intruders on Earth’, to the evocative duet, ‘Anniversary’, where Matthews performs with American soul-jazz singer, Krystle Warren, the result being a vocal fusion that seems impossibly perfect.

Restless Lullabies will be released April 2023.

This performance will last approximately 2 hours including an interval.

Reviews

‘This is just something else…he’s a great live show’ – Huey Morgan, BBC 6 Music

‘Just wonderful, wonderful stuff’ - Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 2 

‘Engagingly thoughtful and classy singer-songwriter’ – The Guardian

‘A deliciously, intimate grainy voice that invokes Rufus Wainwright’s scuffed-velvet croon and Jeff Buckley’s spine-tingling falsetto acrobatics’ – (New Skin review, 2021) UNCUT 7/10