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Amazon.com As one might expect from an album called End of Amnesia, a dateless aura exists within, as if it could have been recorded 100 years ago or 100 years from now. Portland, Oregon, resident Matt Ward's often captivating sophomore CD fuses a bucolic folk sound with a postmodern lo-fi sensibility. Ward's intriguing tunes are sung in hushed tones, and his fragile voice has an offbeat beauty even when he whispers. The atmosphere here is stark and mostly acoustic (save for "Flaming Heart," an odd little rock rave-up that appears midway, like an intermission), and an eerie calm pervades the album. Ward's music features deft, poised guitar playing, vivid lyrical imagery, and melodies that burrow into your brain--as if they'd been there all along. --Marc Greilsamer
First off - Thank God Howe Gleb has the good taste to get behind this guy. Matt Ward puts out some of the best guitar music I've heard since Michael Hedges, OR Leo Kottke (Check out "Psalm" track 11). But Ward has great pop sensibility on top of his vast technical skill.With a scratchy voice culled from Gonzo The Great (compare Ward's wonderful "Carolina" to the classic "Someday") and all the latent emotion and urgency that entails, Matt Ward sings from the edge of everything important. Even if it is just a high school reunion ("So Much Water" track 4). I'm not sure how much of a hand Gleb had in the sculpting of this album, but it is very consistent. I loved all the soft background found-recordings throughout. They were inserted with such taste that they always add to the texture and never annoy like they are apt to do in lesser hands. And just like the O'Brien of the last track (14) Matt Ward quietly and humbly "blew my mind."
