Broken is how I feel hearing "The Broken Man". The tireless darkness, the inevitable death. The dust that we were and that we will all be. The voices that say yes and no. Simply a work of art that runs through the most rugged recesses of the soul, exploring the endless limits of Dark-Folk while the voice of a man frolicking in his room whispers his sorrows and thoughts.r"The Broken Man" is another bet of the artist Matt Elliott, who after leaving the saga of "Songs" enters a new project full of nuances and new sounds, such as the beginning of the album, as sensual as exotic. During the advance of the LP Elliott continues with his voice, singing in an obviously pessimistic and gloomy tone, as if he were a dying man. Probably the lyricism of this album is the most remarkable point, because with a simple and sober vocabulary it manages to express all the anxiety that a man and his pen can feel.rThis album is simply heartbreaking, and although it is impossible to call it perfect, the quality of classic is undeniable for me. It is the of a man with a new art, similar to Elliott's other masterpiece: "Drinking Songs", but being a different reunion, because while the aforementioned album drank from a unique musicality and a precise lyric of ideal accompaniment, in "The Broken Man" the letter is a necessary element, not a mere additive, but part of the main circle, of a dismal circle, a reflection of the abyss that is the nature of art and of the human being.
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