"When an artist dies, who gets to be remembered for their art, and who gets caught in the amber of their death? Longevity helps; if Picasso hadn't outlived his Blue Period and Guernica by a long stretch of years, he might be dinted today as indulgently moody. At eighty-two Leonard Cohen was still making decadently sad albums-his last, You Want It Darker, only months before his death-but because he wore a suit and spent time as a monk, he's remembered less as a poet laureate of melancholy, more as a poet, full stop. Elliott has been swallowed up by a darkness that fully consumed him only at the end. It's never seemed to use a childish word-fair. "There's kind of an inordinate amount of focus on whether I'm personally happy or not," Elliott said once. "If you have a bad dream, does that mean that you're not a happy person? I mean, that's the same place that songs come from.""

— Jamie Fisher: Nobody Broke Your Heart

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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #MiddayShow

Elliott Smith:
🎵 Bottle Up and Explode!

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https://elliottsmith.bandcamp.com/track/bottle-up-and-explode-alternate-version

https://open.spotify.com/track/2c7AnyxXkbemyTEpzprQVx

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CillianMurphysLimitedEdition

Elliott Smith:
🎵 No Name #3

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https://elliottsmith.bandcamp.com/album/division-day-no-name-6

https://open.spotify.com/track/2AqFIGyQtszt9poExltU59

Starting to get into Jeff Hanson’s music, a mix of folk and folk-pop symphonies. He only made three albums in his all-too-short life, the two I’ve listened to are incredible. He had a lovely falsetto voice, full of tenderness, and his music evokes a sense of gentleness, innocence and unassuming beauty. Layered songwriting, in parts reminiscent of Elliott Smith, and indeed they were on the same label.

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https://youtu.be/Ch-LmRMHt6I?si=fHE0_VIjX8Q7PeWO