Elliott Smith - From A Basement On The Hill album flac

Upon its release in 2004, almost exactly a year after Elliott Smith’s still mysterious death, many critics and fans considered From A Basement on the Hill a sort of suicide note. A 2004 article in Spin had this to say about the album’s sound: From the beginning, Smith intended his last album to be more musically fierce, more sonically twisted, and less lyrically abstract than anything he had done before. His inspiration was a record that he’d discovered when he was only five years old. He referred to From a Basement on the Hill as his ‘White Album,‘ David McConnell says

Elliott Smith has been a patron saint of the indie scene since his days helming Portland heroes Heatmiser. As a solo artist, his fondness for Beatlesque melody led to some of the most beautifully orchestrated pop of the last decade. This is his final recording, which found him returning to an edgier, guitar-driven sound, alongside his trademark heart-rending balladry. MUZE Notes: Elliott Smith's death in 2003 left a cavernous hole in the world of popular music. Conceived as an ambitious double album, FROM A BASEMENT ON THE HILL was ultimately narrowed down to 15 tracks by Smith's close friends, producer Rob Schnapf (Beck's MELLOW GOLD, Smith's X/O) and musician Joanna Bolme (the Minders, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks). The result is a heartbreaking collection of songs that plays like a retrospective of Smith's entire career.

Roman Candle is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Elliott Smith. Pitchfork has described the album's style as "lo-fi folk". Roman Candle was recorded and released while Smith was still in Heatmiser. According to Benjamin Nugent's biography Elliott Smith and the Big Nothing, Smith recorded the album in the basement of the home of then-girlfriend and Heatmiser manager .

Elliott Smith completed the 15 songs on From A Basement On The Hill prior to his death in the Fall of 2003. From A Basement On The Hill was written, performed, produced and recorded by Elliott. He recorded these songs at New Monkey, Satellite Park, Audobahn Recording, Sunset Sound, Cherokee Recording, Fort Apache, Two Beers & Everybody Sings, Chateau Brion, and Elliott's homes in Portland and Los Angeles.

Redirected from Coast to Coast (song)). From a Basement on the Hill is the sixth and final studio album by the American singer-songwriter Elliott Smith. Recorded between 2000 and 2003, it was released posthumously in the UK and Europe on Domino on October 18, 2004, and in the US the following day on October 19, 2004 through record label ANTI-.

For many fans, Elliott Smith’s greatest gift to the world was his sadness. He was thirty-four when he died on October 21st, 2003, from two stab wounds to the chest. But the more we learned about his death, the less we knew. Now, days before the one-year anniversary of his death, comes From a Basement on the Hill, the album he was still tinkering with when he died. It starts thick and hazy, with Coast to Coast slowly fading in; atop an elegant jumble of guitars, he sings, I’ve got no new act to amuse you/I’ve got no desire to use you. Like most of the fifteen songs here, this one hints at drugs and death, wasted nights and wasted lives.