It’ll be interesting to see what the genre-defying artists comes up with in October. A single, “See Thru to U,” featuring Erykah Badu, was released back in August and shows a very krautrock influenced sound, reminiscent of the band Can. Guest spots on the album include Thom Yorke, Johnny Greenwood, Erykah Badu and Thundercat. 2: The upcoming album from the neo-jazz experimental electronic producer Flying Lotus. I highly recommend listening to the just released single, “Clique,” featuring Jay Z and Big Sean.įlying Lotus- Until The Quiet Comes: Oct. Kelly, Ghostface Killah, John Legend, Pusha-T, 2 Chainz, Kid Cudi, Big Sean and many more. Featured musical guests include Jay Z, R. 18: The new and upcoming music compilation from Kanye West’s music label. The songs have a brighter sound and feel, with a more positive ambiance compared to the material from Veckatimest. Based on the reveal single “Sleeping Ute,” and official single “Yet Again,” Grizzly Bear are yet again making some very solid music. Grizzly Bear- Shields: Sept. 8: The Brooklyn based indie folk band Grizzly Bear are following up the critically acclaimed 2009 album Veckatimest with Shields. Just these past two weeks, The xx and Animal Collective have released their new albums Coexist and Centipede Hz, respectively. But now, with summer at an end, the fall is here with even more releases. This is Smith, the guitarist, as an ornamental player, who is great at adding curlicues and embellishments.This summer has been great for music with releases like Frank Ocean’s Channel Orange, the Dirty Projectors’ Swing Lo Magellan, Jessie Ware’s Devotion, Passion Pit’s Gossamer, and Purity Rings’ Shrines. On “Everything Reminds Me Of Her,” the opening figure is delicately bent, something to stare at. This is Smith, the guitarist, showing off his great songwriting skills. Notice how the intro on “No Name #1” foreshadows the verse in a folksy way. Smith was also a great actor.About that guitar: He played rhythm well but was especially skilled at coming up with lead lines, figures he would repeat throughout a song. On “Angeles,” hear how he uses a quiet tone but can also summon a battered toughness. Listen to “Say Yes” and hear how his approach can sound vulnerable and sweet and then powerful with overdubbing-Smith was a master at tracking his own voice. But Smith would return to stripped-down recordings all the way to the end, and one of his best is “Everything Reminds Me Of Her,” from 2000’s Figure 8.About that voice: You’ll notice it sound heathery it’s the soft side of the human voice. His lo-fi canon consists of Elliott Smith (good), Roman Candle (great), and Either/Or (masterpiece). Voice and guitar were his building blocks: Early Smith albums were recorded on one microphone in a basement, and when your essential skills are of such high quality, that’s all you need. VOICE AND GUITAR(See playlist at top right) Click here to follow this playlist on SpotifyThis is how Elliott Smith started, and it’s where you should too. And with Smith, there’s more than enough-there are four sides to the story.
What’s most important is that, in both cases, the music transcends their tragic backstories. And they’re both canonized today as scraggly fallen angels, which is like a cartoon version of who they really were. Both also abused drugs and committed suicide. They were both brilliant male feminist rockers from the Pacific Northwest. It has a reputation for being sad.In some ways, Smith’s trajectory paralleled Kurt Cobain’s. His music is often calming and church-like. and London, but his songs could always be reduced to voice and guitar. His music became more layered and elaborate as recording locations shifted to L.A.
He played acoustic guitar perhaps more elegantly than anyone else in his era, mixing it with beautifully delivered yet emotionally messy vocals.
But when you want to explore the music of Elliott Smith, you have to decide which road you want to head down.After moving to Portland, Oregon from Texas in his teens to live with his psychiatrist dad, Smith formed the rock band Heatmiser in the early ‘90s before going solo with a stark acoustic approach, creating wondrous worlds in dank houses. Elliott Smith’s best album, Either/Or, is 20 years old now, and it’s safe to assume that a whole new generation who got hip to it through Frank Ocean’s 2016 album Blond could use a primer on Smith’s music (“Seigfried” quotes Smith’s “A Fond Farewell,” and Smith is named as a contributor in the accompanying Boys Don’t Cry magazine/liner notes).
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