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Texas

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An excellent mix of witty satire and touching lyrics. Never too heavy on the slush or too light on the humour. If this was a souffle, it would be perfect!

The artist deserves wider coverage and I'd recommend Office Suite part 2 & Lonelist Boy in Toyland to anyone. Totally brill

Well yes. It is one fine album. Always amazed at what these Texas boys can do. You just can't keep them away from a guitar!!! and they can all sing like hevenly hosts!!!! (The girls too, of course.) Broyles has come a long way with singlemindedness and determination. Not to mention talent and ambition!!! I love this album. It is music from the heart. You will find youself humming his tunes, and tapping his rhythms a lot. Highly recommended.

*Texas* grabs you by the ears and makes you listen to this guy, the matthew show, who writes funny and moving lyrics set to light, country-rock-inflected catchy melodies. Then he likes to mess with you by whipping out a Floydian guitar solo, or perhaps a Hank-Williams-Jr.-worthy drinking song. He's a strange fella, but talented as hell, and his unpretentious, non-posery sound will get inside your head and make you sing along. Don't say you weren't warned.

Hooray for some of the most original lyrics I've heard in a long time, this guy's Texas roots shine through, and the music stays in your head, to be hummed throughout the day. The comedy and frustration of the "Office Suites Part I and II",makes me laugh out loud, and may become an anthem for those cubicle bound. The style of writing brings to mind George Carlin and other great curmudgeons.
"Bring Me Safely Down" and "Old Enough" are memorable for the music and lyrics,and "Union Station" should make Dallas proud of this Texas native.His voice makes you want to hear more,I hope this CD gets alot of play.

Absolutely fantastic! This is a wry voice, speaking through some brilliantly ironic lyrics and deceptively catchy laid back rock grooves, with some great ambience poking in the backdrop. The voice, which I think is one of the best male baritone vocals around, is summing up a true dissenting Americana, not found easily these days in the clichéd angst of modern rock. The sound is much more earthy and mellow, but there is something I can only describe as a sincere, heart on your sleeve cynicism, reminiscent to me of roger waters if he were less wordy and from texas.
I only got hip to TMS here in NY, but he seems to be carrying on the same tradition as one of his state's other great voices, bill hicks. (I daresay this sounds exactly like the kind of album Bill Hicks would have made had he been more of a musician and less of a comic genius.) The songs balance just the right amount of hooks, playful mellow experimentation, and the feeling that some dark, odd texas stranger is speaking directly to your bones over a few shots of whiskey. The 2 Office Suite numbers are delightfully bitter, Safely Down a great laid back anthem that opens the album (and which I seem to hum to myself constantly. Surely they'll make a video for this, and I'd like to nominate myself as first choice for director...), but the gem of all gems is Mountaintop 4th of July, which I challenge you to not be moved by. Wilco's Yankee Foxtrot Hotel was one of the last great "listen to all the way through" post rock albums, and now this arises to take it's place in my stereo.

First off, I don't normally listen to this type of music, but a friend told me I had to have this CD. Great song writing is great song writing...and this, my friends, is great song writing. Nary a weak track on this disc. The love that is crafted into this disc is obvious from the first note. Great lyrics, catchy hooks, solid instrumentation, and uniquely wonderful vocals. I look forward to future works from The Matthew Show. Office Suite I and Office Suite II are absolute GENIUS tracks. Any fellow cube rats that loved the movie Office Space will identify immediately with these two tracks. Again, a must buy!!

I have seen and heard "The Matthew Show" live in Fort Worth and Dallas. This guy has it all ! Great lyrics, excellent guitar licks, and a cool voice. "Texas" is a great collection of his songs. New York is lucky to have him.
A CD I highly recommend.