"Muchacho's Tune" was the first song I worked on, and the production was inspired by Brian Eno's Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks. The majority of Muchacho's material was recorded at Houck's home studio, with Houck noting, "I had the luxury of building a studio and playing around with sounds for an entire year. I wasn’t sure if I was going to make another Phosphorescent record at that time." I don’t think it’s normal to shut down from record to record, but I wanted to do that. Houck subsequently put recording as Phosphorescent on hiatus stating, "I put Phosphorescent on hold, outside of on tour, for about a year. So I lost the place, lost the girl, and lost my mind." Relationships are tough when you're on the road, too – my girlfriend would come on some of the tours, but it wasn't easy. New York is a beast, man, it’s hard to find a place to do music unless you’re going to soundproof it. It’s a big space, and over the years I acquired a decent amount of gear. The album was influenced by Houck's experiences on tour in support of his previous album, Here's to Taking It Easy (2010), and its aftermath, with Houck stating: "The last time I was on the road, I thought, 'Just a few more months, and then I’ll go home and tend to everything.' But when I got back, everything was too far gone to fix, so there was fallout. Regarding his new recording space, Houck noted, "It's not so much a 'studio' as it is a junky practice space – no professionals would ever walk in there and be like, 'Whoa'." In 2012, Matthew Houck was forced, due to New York City re-zoning, to disassemble his studio in the Navy Yards area of Brooklyn, New York, and subsequently moved to Greenpoint, where he began work on Muchacho in his reassembled studio.
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