Matt Elliott

Drinking Songs

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 ... read more

First listen I didn't get it but Jesus after the second listen it hit me

Depression...

"Drinking Songs" is melancholic and atmospheric, i could easily listen part of this music as a background music in a film about gangsters or a black comedy, and i would probably like it very much, it is gloomy and cinematic, but i really can't listen it as a whole, it's too slow and repetitive, still great concept.

Highlights: "The Guilty Party"