The band released two albums on Frontier Records - 1993’s Dead Air and 1994’s Cop and Speeder - and was signed to Virgin, which put out their final album, Mic City Sons in 1996 on subsidiary Caroline Records.īy that time, Smith was already two albums into a solo career. After graduating from Hampshire college in Amherst, Massachusetts, Smith moved back to Portland with university pal Neil Gust in 1992 and started the group Heatmiser.

The Texas native, born Stephen Paul Smith, spent his teenage years in Portland, OR.

Smith’s refined sense of arrangement and composition made him a singular figure among singer-songwriters and produced a stellar solo catalog until his presumed suicide in 2003.

'This Is an Indisputable 10-Star Album with No Peer and No Real Room for Improvement.', 4 stars out of 5 - 'EITHER/OR took the small arranging step needed to turn Smith's beautifully, harmonically sly but still then mostly self-accompanied tunes into indisputable pop.', '.an awkward sort of prettiness that fits him well.a U-turn from the aggressive, basement minimalism of his last solo record.proving himself to be an artist of uncommon dexterity and grace.', 7 (out of 10) - '.ranges from low-fi sparseness to rock with a melodicism Smith's band Heatmiser has yet to match.Though the harrowing heroin tales of Smith's last album are gone, his frequent alcoholidays suggest a less outwardly tortured Mark Eitzel.', Ranked #24 in Mojo's '100 Modern Classics' - 'Characteristically double-tracked vocals whispered into the listener's head, revealing the confessions of a man struggling to escape an undisclosed past.', Ranked #20 in the Village Voice's 1997 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll., 'As is true of all great songwriters who write from a personal place, to love Elliott Smith’s music is to relate to him.It’s even truer now that he’s gone.', 'This is the sound of Smith conjuring something far bigger than himself and coming into his own as a songwriter, arranger, and performer.', Ranked #73 in Spin Magazine's '90 Greatest Albums of the '90s.', '.Very Frequently on Either/Or Elliott Smith.Leaves You in Awe at His Quiet Power.', 4 Stars Out of 5-'Dark Surrealism with a Wispy, Half-There Voice and an Always Surprising Chorus.Elliott Smith emerged from the Pacific Northwest rock scene of the early 1990s, a performer soaked in both grunge’s soul-baring angst and Beatles-infused pop.

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