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Howling Songs is a dark meditation on isolation and despair.

Name: Matt Elliott - Howling Songs (2lps) (LP)
SKU: WEEC653408
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.9 (193 reviews)

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 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…