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Mess We Made [Import]

~ Matt Elliott
5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

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Product details

  • Audio CD (13 May 2003)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Import
  • Label: Merge
  • ASIN: B00009B8CL
  • Other Editions: Audio CD
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 812,876 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Let Us Break
2. Also Ran
3. Dog Beneath the Sun
4. Mess We Made
5. Cotard's Syndrome
6. Sinking Ship Song
7. End
8. Forty Days

Product Description

Amazon.co.uk Review
Formerly known as the Third Eye Foundation, Matt Elliott is a veritable one-man band of sombre introspection--an electronic music auteur forgoing modern glitch dynamics and digital sharpness for a murky, antique sound of The Mess We Made, where cobwebbed piano laments and the groans of drunken sailors congeal into a mordant whole. Recorded in a house in the depths of rural France, tracks such as "The Dog Beneath The Skin" and "Forty Days" boast a certain traditional Gallic edge, clear elements of native folk music subsumed beneath the distortion and echo. "The Sinking Ship Song" fields the so-called Drunk Ensemble of Chancelade on vocals, a ragged-sounding collection of voices that chorus unsteadily over waltzing accordion. Elliott's passion for muddy analogue over crisp digital and sozzled incoherency over simple clarity, might put some listeners off: it's swiftly clear that, as with all of his Third Eye Foundation work, The Mess We Made is about texture and mood, rather than pop songs. But anyone charmed by the wayward paths of albums by Vincent Gallo or the Black Heart Procession should find themselves in agreeably morose territory here. --Louis Pattison

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Beautiful Mess, 29 April 2003
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This review is from: Mess We Made (Audio CD)
Matt Elliott (aka The Third Eye Foundation) is back at last. Not much has changed, other than the name. The humour of the song titles may have gone (previous gems included 'Fear Of A Wack Planet', 'There's A Fight At The End Of The Tunnel', 'I'm Sick And Tired Of Being Sick And Tired', and 'I've Lost That Loving Feline'), the cover is nothing special (unlike previous ep 'The Sound Of Violence' which featured a photo of an undertakers in Bath called 'Jolly's' and the LP 'You Guys Kill Me' featuring a picture of Christ on its cover, but the music is as haunting and beautiful as ever.
If you own the recent single 'Borderline Schizophrenic' (not included here) and are expecting more of the same you could be disapointed. This record features just two and a half minutes of breakbeat (on the title track), the rest is filled with warped voices, odd guitar notes, gentle piano, brief beats, and trademark eerie effects. And brilliantly so. There's even something approaching Ukrainian style on the excellent chaos of 'The Sinking Ship Song', which has hints of Black Heart Procession's early funeral style doom hidden within. Elsewhere the images conjured are those of the past, like photos curled and yellow at the edges, yet gorgeously timeless.
A natural progression then, from his last studio LP 'Little Lost Soul', and sounding more like the outstanding remix of Yann Tiersen's 'La Dispute' from the remix LP 'I Poo Poo On Your Juju'. 'The Mess We Made' is a must for anyone wanting something different from the often tired sounding electronic scene.
Along with Kieron Hebden of Four Tet, Matt Elliott is making the most original electronic music of the moment. He really is a genius and its about time you took the opportunity to find this out for yourself if you have not already done so.
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