Matt Elliott...

 

Guitarist, vocalist, and electronic musician Matt Elliott has been making dark, haunting, and sometimes apocalyptic music since the mid-'90s. He began playing with several space rock bands from his native Bristol, England, including Flying Saucer Attack, AMP, and Movietone. In 1996, he began releasing a torrent of albums and EPs under his groundbreaking Third Eye Foundation project. The Foundation blended claustrophobic jungle and hip-hop breakbeats with noisy collages of guitars and found samples, resulting in some of the most jarring, unsettling electronic music of its time. 3EF and V/Vm shared the first installment of FatCat's lauded Split Series in 1997. The project released four well-regarded albums on Domino (in the U.K.) and Merge (in the United States), which also issued the 2001 collection I Poo Poo on Your Juju, compiling remixes for Blonde Redhead, Tarwater, Yann Tiersen, and others.


The Mess We Made, Elliott's debut solo album under his own name, was released in 2003. The name change also marked the shift in his work from electronic music to dark, dreamlike experimental folk. Following the album, he moved to France and signed with French label Ici D'Ailleurs. His subsequent albums were far more influenced by chansons and Eastern European music, but they continued the dark themes of his previous work, as evidenced by titles such as Drinking Songs and Failing Songs. In 2009, Elliott participated in This Immortal Coil, a tribute to Coil's Jhonn Balance that also included contributions from Tiersen, DAAU, and Bonnie "Prince" Billy. The project's full-length The Dark Age of Love was issued by Ici D'Ailleurs. Elliott also toured with Tiersen that year, opening for the composer as well as playing in his band. In 2010, Elliott made a surprising return to the Third Eye Foundation moniker for the release of the politically motivated The Dark. He returned to his given name in 2012 for The Broken Man. Only Myocardial Infarction Can Break Your Heart followed in 2013, and The Calm Before arrived three years later.

(Artist Biography by Paul Simpson)


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Matt Elliott: ''The Calm Before''
 (Full Album)

 00:00 - A Beginning
01:28 - The Calm Before 15:48 - The Feast of St. Stephen 19:03 - I Only Wanted to Give You Everything 28:30 - Wings & Crown 34:10 - The Allegory of the Cave#.

  Lyrics:

 00:00 - A Beginning :
(No Lyrics)

01:28 - The Calm Before :

Here comes a storm
The dust and papers dance around the room
It tells of a storm
The sky is a painted viscous swirl of troubled hues
There’s a storm
The branches rock and dance and creak and wave
We’re in for a storm
I’ve got this headache that I’ve had for days
Here comes the rain
The first few drops caress and gently dance
They light up your face
You smile in wonder looking through the eyes of a child once again
But soon the gentle drops become the deadly wolf of a gale
Our voices become lost beneath the chaos
Here comes a storm
The way the wind it starts to play and race
It whispers a storm
And here comes a storm
Just as everything was falling into place here’s a storm
There must be a storm
Don’t we need it
Just to clear it
To blow the dust away
Away, to a place where it can never be found or thought of again
Draw me the shades
The beasts that softly whisper in your ear and keep you awake
We all have ghosts and monsters dear it’s best to give them a face
And then you simply take it, burn and throw the ashes away
The creeping doubts will disappear without trace
Here comes the dawn
I can’t believe we’ve been sitting here all night talking this long
About exactly when and where it started going so wrong
Dissecting every aspect as if it was fine all along
I told you that I’d never been all that strong
Here comes a storm
And with it come the things that we will have to face in this storm
And here comes a storm
Just as everything was falling into place here’s a storm
There must be a storm
Don’t we need it
Just to clear it
To blow the ashes away
Away, to a place where they can never be found or thought of again
This patch of blue, this ray of sun
The sense of a strange uneasy calm
Perhaps that was all, perhaps we’re done
Or maybe the worst is yet to come
And all is calm and cold as death
As all of nature holds her breath
But soon enough she’ll blow
She’ll howl
She knows
And she will howl
She’ll blow us deep into the ground
To the ground
Where we can only pray that we’ll never be found

 15:48 - The Feast of St. Stephen :

So ignorance has such a pretty face
It’s so easy to be drawn to such a grace
But the grace and prayers you mumble while you lay prostrate and humble
What are they?
What are the words you’re saying?
What are the games they’re playing
Wipe those tears away
Ask forgiveness for the times you’ve fallen
For the love and lost time that was stolen
For the times that you were never there
The times you left us to our own devices and despair
And you forgive the choir master as if you hadn’t seen
That he had tried to fuck your daughter when she was just 14
Forgiveness doesn’t run two ways
You’re searching the wrong place
For your sins to be
Completely washed away
We know we’re second place to your god and faith
And it was always this way
I know that these words should not be spoken
I know the fifth commandment can’t be broken
I know that you are deaf to my complaints
That it’s an abuse to curse a child with your faith
They have to learn of fire and brimstone
Their mind is full of sin
They must learn to beg forgiveness before the age of 10
It’s a pitiful disgrace
Christ would turn his face
At this great corruption of his faith
The tiny lies
Vitriol and poison
Manipulation
Betrayed confessions
The endless shame
The twisted fucking games
They’re still the fucking same
And they’ll betray you once again
They will convince you of your guilt
They’ll meet you at the gate
It’ unclear if they’re Orthodox or Uniate
They themselves they couldn’t say
They’re looking the wrong way
Their ignorance is plain
The holming starts again
Thy must take the blame
For their part in the game
And for the untold misery and the pain

 19:03 - I Only Wanted to Give You Everything :

I would die with a smile upon my face
With no complaints
As tranquil as a saint
This world would be transformed from a world of pain
To somewhere sane
My eyes would shine again
But you don’t love me…
And I would have died with a smile upon this weary face
With calm and grace
With nothing left to state
And I my love would have whispered sweet songs in your ears
I’d have sang for years
We’d have danced away the fear
But you don’t love me...

 28:30 - Wings and Crown :

You will find yourself alone
When you’ve fallen from your throne
I only pray there’s pity shown
When you’ve fallen down from your throne
It can be hard
When you fall from so far
If you fall or if you’re thrown
It’s the same down you’ll go
It’s a mighty long way down
When you’ve lost your wings and your crown
When you’ve lost your wings and crown
When you’ve lost your wings and crown
It’s a mighty long way down
When you’ve lost your wings and crown
You will surely hit the ground
Without your wings and crown
Without your wings and crown
When You’ve lost your wings and crown

 34:10 - The Allegory of the Cave :

It must be what now 13 days?
But I can’t shake or forget this twist of cruel fate
You threw yourself into the fray
With no single thought of the end
You fell once again
So this is permanent this change
It’s far too late to contemplate beginning again
This transience is how it’s played
Once lost is away all your days, my friend are numbered
Oh come on silence whisper my name
Give me the answers that I crave
Is it so cold? we just grow old and slowly crumble
The light reflects the wall of this cave
They dance the flame illuminates
But our hands are bound we can’t turn round to face the embers
Do these cells hold all that I am
And once they decay like you I’ll fade into the darkness
Oh come on silence whisper my name
Explain the rules of the game
Oh come on silence talk to me
My feet are bleeding to the bone
They’re cracked and worn
The skin is torn from such a long road
But there’s still a long way to go
The sun beats down
My furrowed brow’s about to burn now
The endless questions still remain
Did I live before and will I then live on once again?
Or are we plucked out from the void
And placed in this frame made of bones, blood and brain cells
And so we’re thrown back in the void
Eternity in the dark is such a long time
Either path is lined with darkness
The crushing pain/the endless void
Repeat the same painful mistakes or
Slowly rot into the soil
Oh darkness please whisper my name
Whisper the rules of this here game

  
A. D.


 Matt Eliott: ''The BrOken MAn'' 


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Matt Elliott - Drinking Songs 
[FULL ALBUM]

00:00 - C. F. Bundy 09:20 - Trying To Explain 12:00 - The Guilty Party 19:14 - What's Wrong 23:23 - The Kursk 34:57 - What The Fuck Am I Doing On This Battlefield? 40:14 - A Waste Of Blood 46:05 - The Maid We Messed

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 Matt Elliott ‎– Howling Songs (2008)
[FULL ALBUM]

 01 00:00 The Kübler-Ross Model 02 11:34 Something About Ghosts 03 18:27 How Much In Blood? 04 20:15 A Broken Flamenco 05 25:33 Berlin & Bisenthal 06 28:34 I Name This Ship The Tragedy, Bless Her & All Who Sail With Her 07 35:06 The Howling Song 08 39:50 Song For A Failed Relationship 09 42:07 Bomb The Stock Exchange
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