Minimal yet grandiose, Drinking Songs is a depressing trip into the mind of Matt Elliott. With ethereal string instrumentation dominating the majority of the album, but an explosive electronic closer, Elliott varies his sound and puts a modern twist on an older style of folk. His singing, while sparse across the project, is solid and fits the dreamy but hopeless theme that these songs carry.
To be honest, a lot of this album revolves around the mindset that you have going into it. While ...
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