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ELLIOTT SMITH - New Moon
| The Observer | | This two-disc set of largely unheard recordings from Elliott Smith's 1995-97 heyday makes a far better swan song for the sadly deceased singer-songwriter than 2004's frazzled and scrappy From a Basement on the Hill. All too often, these posthumous compilations of previously discarded material leave you wishing that those responsible for putting them out could have exercised a bit more willpower. But these 24 songs (of which all but three are previously unreleased) rise up off the cutting-room floor with the woozy vigour of red admiral butterflies, newly awakened from hibernation....full text |
| | Blender | | These 24 tracks, recorded during the late Elliott Smith’s mid-’90s peak, capture the bruised troubadour in full bloom: a mostly unheard mix of drug ballads, defeated love songs and tart character studies of fellow broken souls, some of which match all but his greatest. “High Times” and “New Disaster” are crowned with inimitable choruses, characteristically bitter and catchy, while a tender cover of Big Star’s “Thirteen” suggests that Smith absorbed as much sentiment from Alex Chilton as he did from the Beatles. ...full text |
| | Drowned in sound | For those not familiar with the work of Steven Paul Smith (aka Elliott Smith), he was a legend. He is a legend.
His legacy contains a mixture of lo-fi masterpieces and widescreen grace, a perfect muddle of grainy poetic art-house pavement pain and uplifting grand soul tickling. He was, of course, a complex and dark soul whose life was riddled with drink and drugs to dull and snuff-out the depression of dealing with life’s big questions versus small world, small talk, pointlessness – not to mention murmurs of a much bleaker childhood which he blotched out by escaping into his land of sound....full text |
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