Roman Candle 1/1/1994, Yahoo! Music, Lyndsey Parker
Smith's full-length solo debut revealed the soft side of the (then) Heatmiser frontman, proving he was capable of far more than just aggressive, angular post-punk. This...
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Elliott Smith began his career like most aspiring musicians in the Northwestern states: putting in the requisite hours in a grunge band. Being a team player, however, is not...
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Elliott Smith 6/9/1995, Yahoo! Music, Lyndsey Parker
The album artwork depicts people leaping off a building, and considering the utterly bleak and despairing nature of such co-dependent ballads as "Needle In The...
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Elliott Smith's self-titled second album was his first for the Kill Rock Stars label and also his first major artistic statement. Its sound is fairly similar to that of...
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This is the album on which several Good Will Hunting soundtrack songs--including "Between The Bars," "Angeles" and one of Smith's finest, divine-est...
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Elliott Smith's third album sees his one-man show getting a little more ambitious. While he still plays all the instruments himself, he plays more of them. Several of the...
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A little over a year ago, singer-songwriter Elliott Smith was an ex-member of an obscure indie-rock band with a few cult releases on Washington's Kill Rock Stars label to...
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A year before his major-label debut, XO, was released, it seemed unlikely that Elliott Smith would even be on a major, let alone having his record be one of the more...
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Do you like the Beatles? Do you write songs? Does your voice sound a bit like Nick Drake (the guy you now hear singing "Pink Moon" in a VW
commercial)? Well, then, you must...
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Judging only by his earlier, bare-bones indie-label albums, it seemed highly unlikely that Elliott Smith would turn into the ambitious arranger and studio craftsman of his...
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Listening to an Elliott Smith album has never been exactly an uplifting experience. Since the release of his solo debut, 1994’s Roman Candle, Smith had made a name for...
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Almost exactly a year after his untimely death -- missing the anniversary by just two days -- Elliott Smith's final recordings were released as the From a Basement on the...
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