Eliot Bronson writes songs and uses them to eavesdrop on his own subconscious. The Atlanta-based songwriter, whose track "Breakdown in G Major" earned a coveted spot on the Yellowstone playlist and surpassed 600,000 streams, joined Curious Goldfish to discuss his 2024 album, Talking to Myself. Having navigated the dissolution of his folk duo The Brilliant Inventions and the end of a ten-year relationship that fueled his previous record Empty Spaces, Bronson has mastered the art of "peeling layers off the onion" to find redemption buried in regret.

Bronson views his craft as a way to package personal wisdom into something beautiful enough that he might actually pay attention to it. He explains, "My songs teach me... I get to see myself through my own songs". For Bronson, the barometer for a good song is internal satisfaction: "If it isn't satisfying to me, then it's not going to be satisfying to the listener".

During the pandemic, Bronson built a global community through 165 consecutive weeks of Facebook livestreams. This period forced him to become a "master of cover songs," eventually leading him to rework Prince’s "When Doves Cry" into a haunting acoustic anthem that has become a staple of his live sets.

Inspired by the "F-you and thank you" complexity seen in Ted Lasso, Bronson explores the "in-between emotions" where love, anger, and sadness coexist. Whether he is writing a "letter to an ex" in "From Rabun Gap" or auditing his own career, he remains committed to the "infinite well" of creativity. As he summarizes his calling: "I just sing so I can live with what I've done with my life".