I still remember being in Resistencia, Argentina, checking my email one day in an internet cafe. My dad, amid all the news from the family, let me know that Elliott Smith had died (I’d exposed him to Elliott’s music a couple years before). Sadly, I didn’t know a single person there that had even heard of him, so I couldn’t really talk to anyone about it. I just remember being sad that I had lost someone who had given me a gift in his music, someone willing to bare it all in song and help the rest of us out. I have to admit I was looking forward to years and years of new Elliott Smith albums, and perhaps losing that possible was what affected me most. Fortunately, he left behind enough great unreleased music that on May 8 Kill Rock Stars will be releasing a two-disc collection of music from the Elliott Smith and Either/Or-era titled New Moon. I’ve heard a fair bit of the tracks on the album, and it’s really up to par with the albums the songs didn’t make it onto. So, for everyone like me who is just grateful for a little more Elliott Smith, check it out. Here’s the track “High Times,” which I think really shows how great and raw (in Elliott’s unique way) New Moon will be.
From New Moon
Elliott Smith – High Times
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I still don’t know how anyone can consciously stab them self in the heart. It just bugs me every time I think about that.
Anyways, I don’t know when I want to spend time with this release when it comes out, I just have this sadness that runs through me whenever I happen to listen to anything from Elliott.
I guess we all react differently to music. Elliott’s music, for me, is like wrapping a little blanket around me when I’m cold.
elliott
whoa got cut off there…
wanted to say i love elliott but im not sure really how i feel about this :/
I guess once someone is dead it’s hard to know whether the posthumous release should be looked at as a money-grubbing attempt or a chance to hear more music. I guess I’m more of the “just glad to hear more music” camp, and I can use the “part of proceeds go to charity” to assuage the other bit of my conscience that sees it as money-grubbing…
I’m surprised not a lot of blogs are covering elliott with new moon coming out so soon. I was actually afraid someone would leak it.
This is so different from the demo version, I don’t know how I feel about it, but I’m definitely in the “just glad to hear more music” camp. I already pre-ordered the album and I can’t wait till it gets here.
I agree that I am of the just glad to hear more music camp. Sadly my first exposure to Elliott Smith other than Good Will Hunting was when
From a Basement on the Hill came out, but since then, I’ve collected nearly everything he’s done, and he’s really been a huge part of my musical identity since then.
[...] Lots of great albums this week, with the big draws being Björk’s Volta and the late Elliott Smith’s New Moon (which Pablo wrote about here). If u’re looking for something more, than I can highly recommend The Clientele’s God Save The Clientele, Great Lake Swimmers’s Ongiara, The Sea And Cake’s Everybody and Travis’ The Boy With No Name. I would listen to all the tracks here this week, as all of them are excellent in my opinion. At the very least, you should fine something interesting here. Anything you plan on picking up? [...]
i’m from corrientes argentina xD
Ruben, ¿qué ciudad? Yo pasé dos meses en Goya, y estuve varias veces en Corrientes capital.
soy de capital
vos sos argentino no ?