Elliott Smith, who forged his haunted whispers and delicate guitar fingerpicking into astonishingly intimate songs, wrestled with melancholia and dependency on drugs and alcohol throughout much ...

The Elliott Smith wall is still — sort of — standing on Sunset Boulevard in Silver Lake. The red, white and blue swirl outside the old Solutions speaker repair shop served as a backdrop for ...

At 16 songs long, Smith has ample room on the album to explore ways to deliver his point. He by no means abandons his gentler side on Figure 8.. “Somebody That I Used To Know” and “Easy Way ...