Singer/songwriter
Matt Morris may have spent his formative in a Mouseketeer hat alongside future pop icons
Justin Timberlake and
Britney Spears as a member of the All New Mickey Mouse Club, but his soaring, soulful, and surprisingly elegant Tennman Records debut is anything but teen pop treacle. Produced by longtime friend/label founder/Sexyback bringer
Timberlake and Austin, TX guitar hero
Charlie Sexton, the 13 tracks that populate
When Everything Breaks Open juggle genres defiantly but effectively, begging comparisons to everyone from
Jason Mraz and
James Blunt to
Coldplay and
Stevie Wonder. Throughout it all, the glue that holds the often disparate (and occasionally over-produced) worlds together is
Morris’ fluid croon, a swooning, R&B-tinged sub-falsetto that is as effortless as it is agreeable. ~ James Christopher Monger