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Matt Elliott

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English singer-songwriter from Bristol, formerly released music as Third Eye Foundation. His solo work moved from electronic/avant-noise into a dark, melancholic folk idiom praised for emotional depth and intense live performances.

Reviews identify a trilogy formed by Drinking Songs, Failing Songs and Howling Songs; critics note a move away from electronic/ambient origins to a mournful, acoustic-based solo career. Reviews also describe him as originally from Bristol and later living in France and Spain.

Reviews portray Matt Elliott as a Bristol-born artist who moved from electronic/avant-noise (as Third Eye Foundation) to a dark, melancholic folk/singer-songwriter approach. Critics highlight the emotional intensity of albums such as Drinking Songs, Failing Songs and Howling Songs and praise his live performances. Recurring themes across reviews include loneliness, despair, elegiac beauty and occasional glimmers of hope.

For:Fans of melancholic folk and dark singer-songwriters; listeners of Leonard Cohen / Mark Lanegan / Nick Cave / post-rock-adjacent music.

 Hope is only for others.

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 Matt Elliott is a broken man who sings with closed eyes.

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 A great singer-songwriter.

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 The Howling Songs are undoubtedly the logical and physiological continuation of the discourse initiated with the two albums that preceded them:

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