His music delves deep in Hidden Reverse traditions, incorporating specific environmental soundings of occult landscapes into beautiful drone works that advance the oracular/hallucinogenic English underground tradition.
Shaw conjures the ghostly afterimage of ritual songforms and reassembles them as lucid, revenant forms animating particular landscapes, as if performing some kind of historico-cultural sleight of hand, resulting in Shaw’s most beautifully puzzling evocations of a phantom ritual England
David Keenan
A beautifully understated, fragile affair. Bewitching and addictive
The Times
These warm, melancholy undulations interfere with each chord’s gravitational pull, creating tonal fata morgana and melodies that may or may not not be there: a state similar to meditation where she is neither asleep nor awake. All said, it will take you places
Charlie Frame, The Quietus
Matthew’s Shaw’s debut album is an artful adventure into the possibilities of drone, keyboard washes and soundscape in a stunningly effective and addictive trip that combines the deep England of weather-beaten landscape, pre Christian pagan rocks, occult shapeshifting and beautiful drones that shiver deep into the ancient land that is sometimes obscured by the garish rush of modernity
John Robb, Louder Than War
His multi-levelled music is immersive and captures the ‘genius loci’ or spirit of place with awe-inspiring sensitivity
Gary Cook, The Ecologist
Haunted pastoral, all waterlogged choral hums lapping against field recordings, with gentle accoustic guitars deep underneath
Jon Dale, Uncut
A gentleman with a firm grasp of the importance of stillness and silence in music. His beats roll in like sleepwalking tapdancers, his basslines are corpulent and cavernous and he has less a vocal style and more a bedside manner where he half- whispers at you
NME
Simply beautiful