Thin Lear

With his sad and powerful songs made under the Thin Lear banner, Queens-based singer/songwriter Matt Longo evokes the essence of masterful artists such as Leonard Cohen, Sufjan Stevens, Emmylou Harris, and the like. His classically crafted chamber folk songs explored death, despair, and hope on his 2020 debut, Wooden Cave. Longo was born and raised in Long Island, and by the 2010s he had established himself as part of New York's independent scene. He sang for various bands and released several albums under his own name before taking up the Thin Lear mantle in 2016 with a self...