Press

Bloom Suite

A deeply attractive piece of twenty-first century music, at once serious and fun: fast paced, mercurial, harmonically rich, and constantly changing. Dmitri Tymoczko , Reader's report, Princeton

Bloom Trio

The album opens with the kinetic, lyric, and mesmerizing Bloom, a trio for guitar, cello, and clarinet — at times aggressive and urgent, tender and longing, and still when need buoyant and playful. Cortlandt Matthews , Sequenza21 , 2019-04

Hanuman's Leap

A charismatic contemporary bard. Vivien Schweitzer , The New York Times , 2016-04-01

A sophisticated hybrid of rap, drone, Indian music, and contemporary vocal techniques. Bruce Hodges , Musical America , 2016-04-06

Hecuba

Delightfully bonkers, really. BBC Radio 3

A lovely and elegant album about a terrifying, savage tragedy, with a beautifully bittersweet indie-rock sound. Gabriela Tedeschi , Brooklyn Rail , 2018

I Saw You Under the Fig Tree

Ending the programme with Elliot Cole's I saw you under the fig tree, the words which assert and confirm Christ's omniscience, was a masterstroke. Brian Morton , Choir & Organ , 2018

Journals, Vol. 1

Graceful and poignant, Journals, Vol. 1 conveys brilliant allusions and turns of sonic phrase, at times heartrending while at other times vehement, yet always exquisitely subtle. Randy Radic , The Young Folks , 2021-09-29

The astonishingly beautiful collection of music composed and produced by Elliot Cole is deeply moving and inspirational. Elliot Cole's “Journals (Vol. 1)” is beyond gorgeous. Spiritual, uplifting, intensely light…musical joy. I love this record. Samantha Simmonds-Ronceros , NoHo Arts District , 2021-10-03

Nightflower

Nightflower is the music of endless discovery. A Closer Listen , 2019

The kinetic, lyric, and mesmerizing Bloom, a trio for guitar, cello, and clarinet. Cortlandt Matthews , Sequenza21 , 2019-04-03

Passionate Pilgrim

What it would sound like if Belle and Sebastian were to cut a record of Baroque-inspired folk songs. The New Yorker

Music that is unstuck in time. Wall Street Journal

It may not be Shakespeare — but it's poetry, through and through. Second Inversion , 2017-04-03

Postludes

They rubbed bows across the bars of vibraphones for American composer Elliot Cole's Postludes, creating sparkling icicles of sound. Christopher R. Weingarten , Rolling Stone , 2016-04-04

Then I came across Elliot Cole's Postludes for Bowed Vibraphone — basically an elaborate, motorized metallophone. It's performed by several players, each with two bows. I was in awe. Cole is the first composer I came across who uses the bow as the principal way to play the instrument. Yara al-Asmar (interviewed by Jim Quilty) , L'Orient Today , 2024-03-13

Roda

Elliot Cole's four-movement Roda is the star attraction of this album and the 'wheel' of the title. Kathleen McGowan , I Care If You Listen , 2019-07-09

Sibylla

A ravishing programme, sung with surpassing delicacy by the extraordinary Gallicantus. Brian Morton , Choir & Organ , 2018

Terra Nova

Superb. Zachary Woolfe , The New York Times

Melancholy sweetness and utterly endearing nerdiness, which both tug kindly at the heartstrings. Five Boroughs Music Festival , 2021

The World Is Nothing

Cole achieves this with excellence, venturing through immense drones, delicate orchestral passages, musique concrete moments, and rhythmic bursts of percussion. Perfect Circuit , 2024-02-02