The Broken Man is an introspective journey into human fragility.

In The Broken Man, Matt Elliott delves into the fragility of the human condition. Featuring stripped-down arrangements and slow, contemplative melodies, the album offers an intimate listening experience. Influences from European folk traditions remain, but the focus shifts to personal, emotional storytelling. This introspective work highlights Elliott's capacity to evoke profound vulnerability through music.The Songs Trilogy is over, A new chapter entitled 'The Broken Man' is about to open and is the most delicate of Elliott's albums to date. The angry noise has all but abated, making way for more fragile melodies and a more subtle approach to intensity to immerse the listener. Ideally listened to in total darkness to discover the hope hidden deep within the guitars, voice, choirs, bells, ethereal trumpets, the howl of the dog beneath the skin, in the sincerity of the music. Inspired by the ghosts of European folk music, the voice often resigned but always expressive.
Always finding new ways of working, Elliott collaborated with Katia Labeque who interpreted an improvisation of his that became the backbone of one of the central epic pieces on this album. 'Dust Flesh and Bones', another of the epic pieces on this album, is perhaps Elliott's most beautiful and moving work to date, simple in it's form but emotionally profound. 'The Pain that's Yet to Come' hints at a new almost psychedelic era to come.
'The Broken Man' is an album to be discovered gradually over many listens, and with each one a new depth is surrendered until one can appreciate the panorama in it's entirety. Each track is an invitation to explore one mans analysis of his own descent reflecting the frustrations and sadness that touch us all at some point.
Mixed by Yann Tiersen this album is a bridge between the more acoustic work of 'Songs' and the more electronic, ethereal work of Third Eye Foundation. It is finely balanced in the centre of Matt's musical universe.

Track Listing

• Oh How We Fell
• Please Please Please
• Dust Flesh And Bones
• How To Kill A Rose
• If Anyone Tells Me 'It's Better To Have Loved And Lost Than To Never Have Loved At All' I Will Stab Them In The Face
• This Is For
• The Pain That's Yet To Come

Additional Details

Label: Ici d'Ailleurs

Genre: Folk

Run Time: 57 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 02/17/14

UPC: 3521381564853