Scott Matthews' Study in Worried Beauty

Scott Matthews' Study in Worried Beauty Monday's Pick Song: "Elusive" Artist: Scott Matthews CD: Passing Strangers Genre: Pop-Rock toggle caption Photo courtesy of Scott Matthews It's hard to keep track of every high-voiced, vaguely Jeff Buckley-esque singer-songwriter to join the fray in the last five years — especially when they have names like "Scott Matthews," which doesn't exactly sear itself into the memory banks on first reference. But that's no knock on Matthews, whose impeccably chosen influences signal his sizable creative ambitions. Opening with a beleaguered sigh and getting only incrementally more cheerful from there, "Elusive" doesn't exactly generate heaps of momentum as it ambles along. But the song is a study in dreamy beauty, as Matthews maximizes the impact of his straightforwardly worried words: "If it's true, I am doomed / What more is there to hold onto?"