Description
Howling Songs is a dark meditation on isolation and despair.
Concluding a trilogy that began with Drinking Songs, Howling Songs is perhaps Matt Elliott's darkest album. Its haunting compositions feature plaintive vocals and minimalist arrangements, creating a near-funereal atmosphere. Themes of isolation and despair dominate the record, but glimpses of hope emerge through poignant, heartfelt melodies, showcasing Elliott's unique ability to balance bleakness with beauty.More than ever, Matt Elliott plays his role as singer perfectly, exposing his deep, gravelly voice to the full, avoiding or limiting the layering that some do. This approach only makes the message more touching, and it suits these melodious strings woven by mandolins and guitars with saudade in their souls, piano and tightrope-walking violin, whose notes march by with a restraint and sensitivity as incomparable as ever, but which sooner or later end up bending under the domination of electric, fiery rain. These moments of visceral melancholy serenity systematically give way to shattering tornados and sonic intoxications, as if to express despair at a ruined and screwed-up world and, above all, the desire to fight against a disgusting and vomitous system (Bomb the Stock Exchange, an unequivocal title).
An end that lets the rage flow, a period as much as a point of suspension, in the sense that all possible sequels are conceivable...
Track Listing
Disc 1:- The Kübler-Ross Model
- Something About Ghosts
- How Much In Blood ?
- A Broken Flamenco
- Berlin & Bisenthal
- I Name This Ship Tragedy, Bless Her & All Who Sail With Her
- The Howling Songs
- Songs For A Failed Relationship
- Bomb The Stock Exchange
Additional Details
Label: Ici d'Ailleurs
Genre: Folk
Run Time: 55 mins
Region: 0
Release Date: 11/10/08
UPC: 3521381540031