Elliott Smith

06/09/1995 3:00 AM, 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 Hay," "Clementine" and "Southern Belle," such cover art seems appropriate. This intensely melancholy album is much more likely to conjure suicidal thoughts than any Ozzy or Priest record.