The End of Days is a haunting meditation on fear, hope, and acceptance.

The End of Days is Matt Elliott's most contemplative and atmospheric album to date. It captures the uncertainty and introspection of an imagined apocalypse while maintaining a deeply personal tone. Rooted in Elliott's signature blend of dark folk and minimalist arrangements, the album features sprawling compositions that gradually build in intensity. Tracks like 'January's Song' and the title track reveal Elliott's knack for combining somber melodies with rich, evocative textures. With its haunting vocals, delicate guitar work, and ethereal soundscapes, The End of Days is both a meditation on existential themes and a profoundly human exploration of fear, hope, and acceptance.
Of course, one would like to classify Matt Elliott in one genre or another, but more than a school or a style, the Englishman is finally more in line with a heritage, a tradition rather, that of the complaint, of the song of lamentation which runs from continent to continent, from country to country. From Greek rebetic songs to Portuguese Fado, Delta Blues, Balkan fanfares, Yiddish melancholy or Cape Verdean Saudade, you can hear it all in Matt Elliott's music, the song of an uprooted person, a stateless person, a being outside the world.
The End Of Days, in the opening, all in appeasement, in languor raises something remarkable in the Matt Elliott of 2022, it is this will to play with the Manichaeism in these songs neither only grey, nor totally black.
. Listening to Matt Elliott's records is not only listening to an artist who would have abandoned the electronic dimension in his work. It is much more than that, it is to see an artist who will leave a different imprint, Flowers For Bea is undoubtedly the most beautiful example. His voice has never been so beautiful, so strong, so full of nuances as on Unresolved. There is a kind of letting go in both his lyrics and his singing that is something new in the musician's work.

Track Listing

• The End Of Days
• January's Song
• Song of Consolation
• Healing A Wound Will Often Begin With a Bruise
• Flower for Bea
• Unresolved

Additional Details

Label: Ici d'Ailleurs

Genre: Folk

Run Time: 50 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 11/07/11

UPC: 3521383473825