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ELLIOTT SMITH "From A Basement On The Hill" Reviews
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Release: 19 Oct 2004
Label: Anti
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| E!Online |
Rating: 10.0 |
Exquisite, angry, sad and personal, basement is a beautiful swan song of one of this generation's best.
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| Guardian |
Rating: 10.0 |
From a Basement on a Hill sounds like his most consistent album since 1995's Either/Or.
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| StylusMagazine |
Rating: 9.1 |
From a Basement on the Hill is a far better album than it has any right to be
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| The Onion A.V. Club |
Rating: 9.0 |
A collection of new songs by one of the most emotive and brilliant songwriters of his generation
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| Playlouder |
Rating: 9.0 |
So what do we have here, then? We have an unfinished album, and also a beautifully accomplished one.
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| NME |
Rating: 9.0 |
Elliott Smith's unfinished final album is no posthumous cash-in, and instead stands up as a fitting tribute to an immensely talented artist
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| PrefixMag |
Rating: 8.0 |
From the Basement is a painful reminder of a record that could've been and a life that shouldn't have ended.
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| BBC Music |
Rating: 7.5 |
From A Basement On The Hill is possibly one of the saddest records ever made.
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| PitchFork |
Rating: 7.2 |
From a Basement on the Hill is perfectly coherent and cohesive, without any sense of being slapped together from half-finished parts.
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| RollingStone |
Rating: 7.0 |
This is an album about the seductions of oblivion, and a few of the more densely arranged songs mimic the characters in the lyrics, stumbling around without quite connecting.
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| DustedMagazine |
Rating: 7.0 |
Rougher around the edges, and perhaps less structurally cohesive, but still exactly what we've come to expect
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