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Smith, Elliott : From A Basement On The Hill
Elliott Smith’s unfinished final album is no posthumous cash-in, and instead stands up as a fitting tribute to an immensely talented artist
- Dec 6, 2004
Elliott Smith: Osaka Club Quattro
It's the way he glides up to that fragile high pitch and meanders down at the end of phrases that gets you...
- Dec 11, 2000
West Hollywood Roxy
OK, so you can officially throw those [a]Nick Drake[/a] comparisons out of the window.
- Feb 28, 2000
New York Beacon Theater
Reports of [a]Elliott Smith[/a]'s moroseness have been greatly exaggerated...
- Oct 31, 2000
Smith, Elliott : Baby Britain
He must be saying something really profound! Like fuck. File next to [a]Belle & Sebastian[/a] and bin.
- Apr 24, 1999
Atlanta Tabernacle
Tonight's crowd isn't really interested in hearing any songs they don't already know all the words to...
- Oct 23, 2000
London Shepherd's Bush Empire
[B]Elliott[/B] knows that, in the fickle world of lo-fi folkiness, Being A Bit Rubbish equals Credibility...
- Mar 29, 1999
London WC1 ULU
melodrama. And [B]'Christian Brothers'[/B] is a revelation, the apotheosis of Smith, that prodigious knack of packaging hate and desolation in implausibly harmonious contexts stretched to its almost
- Nov 21, 1998
XO
When Elliot Smith first shuffled from the shadows, there was some doubt that the planet really needed another sensitive singer-songwriter chronicling the lot of the thrift-store loser...
- Jul 19, 1998
San Francisco Fillmore Auditorium
Loved by the lost and the lonely and anyone who ever had a heart broken...
- Jun 7, 2000
Roman Candle / Elliott Smith
Mainstream success beckons for Elliott Smith in the wake of his Oscar-nominated [I]Good Will Hunting [/I]soundtrack.
- Jun 30, 1998
