Matthew Strachan Matthew Strachan London "Each song has the ingenious structure of a mini-play" The Guardian A twelve-time ASCAP award winner whose soundtrack music is familiar the world over, Matthew Strachan has written for Nashville recording artists, and scored three musicals. But his own quirky songwriting owes as much to Music Hall and New Orleans as to Broadway. The cinematic sweep of his dark stories are shot through with satirical humour. Lovers, psychopaths, ordinary Joes all crop up in his work, and as one reviewer put it, Strachan is as comfortable writing about Tennessee Klansmen as he is about romance. "Baby boomers, a wealthy man who hates his family and “what a Muppet campaign song for Donald Trump would sound like”. He is able to sing about anything" My Entertainment World Critics liken him to Tom Lehrer, Leonard Cohen and Randy Newman. His creations may not all be loveable but they're always recognisable. Exasperated bigots, angry Alpha males, lonely landladies, voyeurs and dysfunctional daredevils all have their moment in the spotlight. Matthew Strachan gives them all three minutes to tell their tale. "Well-crafted storytelling within the structure of deceptively simple songs." The Reviews Hub Matthew Strachan’s playlists Twitstorm by Matthew Strachan published on 2017-06-11T15:31:06Z Matthew Strachan (Website) by Matthew Strachan published on 2017-01-20T15:31:42Z Ominous by Matthew Strachan published on 2016-12-16T18:21:39Z
