Single – Softly Spoken Boy – Out Now
Debut Album - Miss Vaughan
Released 22nd April 2005
Live Dates Announced

What the press said:

Hot Press review 24.03.05.
Music teachers note: be nice to your students and you might get an album named after you one day... An eight year old Matt Lunson promised his teacher Miss Vaughan that he'd do just that because "she made music fun."

And what an album to be named after. Miss Vaughan is, at ten tracks, a small but perfectly formed gem of a debut.
The Tasmanian born Lunson spent his formative years singing for Sydney based punk band, Hasselhoff, before moving to London in 1998. He fell in love with Dublin on a weekend break and currently divides his time between here and Australia.

Although a wide range of instrumentation is used, including trumpet, violin and slide guitar, it's Lunson's exquisite voice and universal lyrics that dominate proceedings.
Highlights include first single Softly Spoken Boy, 31, In The Morning, Too Many Friends, Perfect Air and Something About My Baby. The last of these was recorded live in Whelans in 2002 and highlights Lunson's ability to turn a sparse tune into an emotive tearjearker.

Having toured with BellX1, Turn and Mundy, it's evident that the Irish acoustic scene has taken Lunson under it's wing. Now he's ready to fly the nest. 8/10

Irish Times review
Like proverbial coals to Newcastle, one wonders why a Tasmanian singer-songwriter would decamp to Ireland. Perhaps he's "not quite right" as he sings on here, but listening to Miss Vaughan, it's clear that Matt Lunson's debut is an exercise in lucid loveliness. Like fellow performers Richie Egan and Jeff Martin, Lunson inverts the genre, side-stepping the generic slew of lone guitarist clones. Both use a full band, a methodology Lunson adopts, instilling more than a hint of acoustic Radiohead as a result. The references are perfectly filed and buffed: Thirty One boasts the kind of parched angst Elliot Smith would be proud of, and single Softly Spoken Boy echoes the under-rated David Mead. Factor in lyrical epiphanies (Too Many Friends) and you get an album that sparkles and shines.
Sinead Gleeson

RTE.IE review - 12 May 2005
Matt Lunson - Miss Vaughan Go Sick! - 2004 - 39 minute
As an eight-year-old boy in his native Tasmania, Matt Lunson made a promise to his then music teacher that he would name his first album after her. 20 odd years later, 'Miss Vaughan' is the result of that promise and much of the innocence invoked by the title is evident in what is a polished, evocative, yet sometimes dark debut.

Having earned his stripes as lead singer with Sydney-based rockers Hasselhoff, Lunson left Australia for London in 1998 before a weekend break to Dublin saw him fall in love with the city. Since then he has divided his time between Dublin, Sydney and Tasmania, and this first solo offering has been inspired by much of the raw natural beauty of his homeland, where the album was recorded. However, he returned to Ireland where the 10 tracks were mixed by Dave Geraghty from Bell X1 and The Rotators.

Unsurprisingly, Lunson touches on the traditional woes of his contemporaries, but it is to his credit that his reflections on love, loss and male insecurity are never tired or clichéd. The album's high points are the haunting 'Jump', which inspires thoughts of Tom McRae, the quirky 'You and the Stars', 'Softly Spoken Boy', the album's first single, and the delightfully innocent lament that is 'Too Many Friends'.

With a running time of just 39 minutes, 'Miss Vaughan' confirms Lunson's arrival as a potentially major player in the singer-songwriter genre and leaves you yearning for more. On 'Too Many Friends' he suggests: "No you can't have too many friends, Life ain't a popularity contest, it's just nice to make friends". And on the strength of 'Miss Vaughan', the multi-talented Lunson is destined to make many more.
Shane Murray

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