Thursday, September 09, 2004
Because your candle burns too bright/ well, I almost forgot it was twilight...
Insound has a free MP3 from the new Elliott Smith album, From a Basement on a Hill. It's difficult to listen to this song or "A Distorted Reality is Now a Necessity to be Free" without trying to pick it apart like a crime scene or a therapist's patient. Every song on this album is going to have the weight of a last will and testament. When I saw the Twilight Singers, Dulli made a comment about how we'll never know the loneliness Elliott must have experience in the 10 minutes before he plunged the knife in, and I wonder how much of this album will give insight into that loneliness. At the same time, I wonder how much of the album actually deserves attention in terms of what happened.