All bile and trauma, Elliot Hall traps you in a closet, steadies your head, and quietly smothers you with a shaking hankerchief. The warm Cabernet on his breath relaxes you a little while you try and make out what he's whispering - 'Claire, don't you leave, don't you grieve, the world is ugly without you..' and you believe him, and wish you knew Claire.

Elliot's songs are the type you like to listen to when you're deciding whether to open your second bottle of whatever, and wallow in some well deserved misery.

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