Fresh Blood

AlbumMar 09 / 201510 songs, 47m 6s
Singer-Songwriter
Popular Highly Rated

These ten songs of Fresh Blood are guides for times of joy, agony and the middle distance where we most often linger. It is a bracing, beguiling record and a bold advance for White - a record that feels like the brilliant bloom to the striking bud of 2012's Big Inner.

6.7 / 10

On his follow-up to Big Inner, the Richmond, Virginia-based singer/songwriter meditates further on Big Ideas —love, death, God—fully engaged in the notion of music as a higher ground.

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8.4 / 10

Fresh Blood is already Matthew E. White’s second complexly beautiful album this year.

An album of revelatory qualities.

Before he became a frontman, Matthew E. White cut his teeth as a jazz composer and arranger.

Matthew E. White preaches love as salvation, ecclesiastical overtones proudly vaunted and emblematic of a subversive attitude towards love and sexuality.

8 / 10

Though we're only a few months in, 2015 has boded well for Richmond, Virginia-based label/studio/collective Spacebomb so far. After releasin...

7.0 / 10

"Nobody in this world is better than us," sings Matthew E. White part way through his sophomore LP Fresh Blood. From anybody else it would sound like impossible bravado, but from the Virginia-born song man it works on two levels: a bold proclamation and a

Matthew E White’s follow-up to Big Inner refines the Spacebomb MO

7 / 10

It lacks the impact and otherness of his 2012 debut, but Matthew E White’s follow-up is still a delight

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