So we left Matt with The Broken Man, an album on edge, stripped and perhaps his darkest record to date. Only Myocardial Infarction Can Break Your Heart, his new album, announces an optimism previously unsuspected in the musician. A new start, perhaps a form of renewed hope. Whatever it may be, this new album introduces a new dimension in the music of Matt Elliott, without ever questioning the foundations. From the first notes, the climate (relatively) less dark than usual, and the listener is taken away naturally. The first piece, over 17 minutes, a manifest of a new dynamic and unassailable, a desire to move forward regardless of the obstacles. The melancholy that has always emerged from Matt's music is transformed here into bustling energy and yet ... read more