A new year arrives full of promise of what’s to come, and while there may be plenty to dread, depending on your politics or personal situation, at least music seems poised to delight us — and soon! The past week […]
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If you were to Weird Science the prototype for a technically perfect, ethereal female singer, you’d come up with someone like Mikaela Davis. Petite, young and blonde, she’s a harpist with a high, dreamy, limber voice who boasts an affinity for […]
Driving around Austin, Texas, today, I was suddenly struck by an epic wave of nostalgia. I was transported to the Portland, Oregon, of my youth … staring out a second story window, watching rain drizzle onto dark, wet concrete through […]
Let this dignified CD not be the start of a multi-label Elliott Smith refabrication issuing forth several unsatisfactory “best-of” collections bittersweetened with rarities and “never-before-heard” vault finds and overdubbed demos. Fans of Tupac, Nick Drake, Johnny Cash, the Beatles and […]
A figure 8 is formed by a single line of indefinite origin and infinite length, always heading somewhere but endlessly retracing its own steps. Similarly, Elliott Smith has made much of his music’s continuing evolution but still clutches close a […]
Incorporating lush strings and vibrant horns into his sonic dreamscapes, Elliott Smith uses his fourth solo album to bridge past works to the future. XO finds Smith slipping easily from his hallmark quiet moodiness into brighter, bigger sounds, suggesting that […]
It’s hard to imagine, after three records with Portland’s Heatmiser (the newest and perhaps last of which, incidentally, is quite good), and what with two fine solo records under his Texas-born belt, that Elliott Smith should still drift so far […]
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