​Crys Matthews (from the album Reclamation

​Crys Matthews (from the album Reclamation

A Rock’n’Roll shuffle follows Crys Matthews into her new release, Reclamation, as she lays down facts as she draws the line singing ‘it’s right or wrong not left or right, well, it sure ain’t red or blue’ for “The Difference Between” where she is joined by Melody Walker and Chris Housman for harmony support. Crys Matthews hushes “Clumsy” for confessions of life and love as she views “The Big Picture” over chopped rhythms, walking somber piano notes for the questions and demands found in “My Skin”. Reclamation is a statement of life-so-far from Crys Matthews as she paints her words across the sky with full band backing and quiets for acoustic reveries.
Mirroring the 30-second elevator pitch Crys Matthews uses to describe herself, Reclamation tells its tale from the perspective of ‘a preacher's kid, a Black woman, a Butch lesbian, and a proud Southerner who sings social justice music right alongside 'traditional Country and Americana music’. Secrets hide behind the story of “In Her House” as a backroad Country sway swings along with Shannon LaBrie sharing vocals for the observations in “Some Roads” as heavy beats share the road with the equally burdensome weight that spans the distance between “CA/GA” and a rhythmic rumbles travel underneath the truths of “Cancel Culture”. Standing proud at the side of the songs she sings, Crys Matthews feels ‘this album is both sonically and ideologically the fullest representation of who I am as an artist and as a human’. Reclamation quiets the strums when Heather Mae joins in harmony to share “The Good Stuff” and hammering a beat for the declarations of “Suit and Tie” while Crys Matthews lays out her heart in “I Want It All” as she exits the album on the caffeinated groove gathering ghosts in “Waking Up the Dead”. (by Danny McCloskey)
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