You would think that seeing yourself compared to the likes of Neil Young and Leonard Cohen on a regular basis would bring you to your knees from the weight of expectations. But when it comes to Mat Gibson, he went and did the only thing, he really could do; he made an EP that, in its finest moments, easily matches both legends mentioned in beauty as well as insight into the nature of man. Shortly before the September 5th release of Forest Fire, we spoke to Mat about returning from Canada, finding his place on the booming new UK Americana scene and the fine art of heartbreaks and how he lived to tell about it.