What is it like to inhabit the world of Matthewdavid? If the picture on the front of ‘In My World’ is anything to go by, it’s a blissful place of peace and love – which comes across in his music, although ‘In My World’ is a good sight more energetic than his first album ‘Outmind’. Here we find him in a kind of skewed R&B, with squiggly synth lines and airy sound pictures that often come across as a radio transmission, with appealing fuzz and atmospherics to boot. Singing Flats does a neat line in cross rhythms between slow and fast, while ‘Perpetual Moon Moods’ dabbles in some nicely multi tracked self-harmonising. The swirling finale of ‘Birds In Flight’ is appealing, too, with the Light Of Love Children’s Choir adding their otherworldly harmonies. The only criticism I would have of this is that ‘In My World’ does keep a very similar sound the whole way through, and it’s this relative lack of variety – especially between slow and fast – that means the album can be one-dimensional at times. It’s still a pleasing listen though.
3 out of 5
Reviewed By Ben Hogwood
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