The End Of Days

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THE NEW MASTERPIECE BY THE ENGLISH SONGWRITER. Of course, one might want to categorize Matt Elliott into one genre or another, but more than a school or a style, the Englishman ultimately fits into a legacy, a tradition rather, that of the lament, the song of mourning that spans from continent to continent, from country to country. From Greek rebetiko songs to Portuguese Fado, Delta Blues, Balkan brass bands, Yiddish melancholy, or Cape Verdean Saudade, all of this can be heard in Matt Elliott's music, the song of a rootless person, a stateless individual, a being outside the world. - - - - - This new album by Matt is undoubtedly his best work to date, an album that takes him into another dimension and where he fully asserts himself as a songwriter and singer in the company of artists like Bill Callahan, Leonard Cohen, or Johnny Cash. (Stéphane Grégoire, Ici d'Ailleurs)