https://mattelliott.bandcamp.com/album/the-broken-man

Reedycja płyty z 2012 roku. Wersja 2 LP zawiera oprócz podstawowego materiału także utwory dodatkowe i wersje instrumentalne. Tracklista wersji winylowej:
The Broken Man
A1 Oh How We Fell 11:49
A2 Please Please Please 2:34
A3 Dust Flesh And Bones 9:16
B1 How To Kill A Rose 1:59
B2 If Anyone Tells Me "It's Better To Have Loved And Lost Than To Never Have Loved At All" I Will Stab Them In The Face 13:23
B3 This Is For 3:51
B4 The Pain That's Yet To Come 3:41
The Broken Man (Bonus tracks/instrumental versions)
C1 Christ In Everything (Bonus) 3:11
C2 Impro 3 (Bonus) 1:42
C3 Dust Flesh and Bones (Instrumental) 9:14
D1 If Anyone Tells Me "It's Better To Have Loved And Lost Than To Never Have Loved At All" I Will Stab Them In The Face (Instrumental) 13:23
D2 This is For (Instrumental) 3:53
D3 The Pain That's Yet to Come (Instrumental) 3:41




Recenzja Bartka Chacińskiego (polifonia.blog.polityka.pl)

The Songs Trilogy is over, A new chapter entitled 'The Broken Man' is about to open and is the most delicate of Elliott's albums to date. The angry noise has all but abated, making way for more fragile melodies and a more subtle approach to intensity to immerse the listener. Ideally listened to in total darkness to discover the hope hidden deep within the guitars, voice, choirs, bells, ethereal trumpets, the howl of the dog beneath the skin, in the sincerity of the music. Inspired by the ghosts of European folk music, the voice often resigned but always expressive.

Always finding new ways of working, Elliott collaborated with Katia Labeque who interpreted an improvisation of his that became the backbone of one of the central epic pieces on this album 'If Anyone Ever Tells Me That it is Better.......
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