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From a Basement on the Hill

by Elliott Smith

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Overall Rating: 3.5286 From a Basement on the Hill is ranked overall as 3.5286 out of 4 stars
Avg. Critic Score: 3.3044 From a Basement on the Hill has an avg. critic score of 3.3044 out of 4 stars

From a Basement on the Hill Rank 4 Reviews

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E! Online
Exquisite, angry, sad and personal, basement is a beautiful swan song of one of this generation's best. ...more
Tiny Mix Tapes
If you're not moved in some way, you don't move. ...more
The Guardian
You are drawn to the conclusion that these songs would be remarkable regardless of the circumstances in which they were written. ...more
Splendid
It's simply wonderful -- bristling with pop masterpieces large and small, and reassuringly unburdened by Smith's deep-seated malaise. ...more
Stylus Magazine
Oh we’re so very precious, you and IAnd everything that you do makes me want to dieOh I just told the biggest lieI just told the biggest lieThe biggest lie-Elliott Smith, “The Biggest Lie”, fromElliott SmithHas any modern ...more

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Entertainment Weekly
The phrase ''lowered expectations'' could have been invented for the tapes Elliott Smith left behind when he was declared dead from knife wounds a year ago. His previous album, 2000's Figure 8 , was churlish and overproduced, and the ...more
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We always thought it was the music that held him together. There were signs all over the place, and he nearly said that much in interviews. We heard those beautiful melodies and that glass-fragile quaver and never found a better home for the ...more
StylusMagazine
From a Basement on the Hill is a far better album than it has any right ...more
Playlouder
An unfinished album, and also a beautifully accomplished one. ...more
Stylus Magazine
From a Basement on the Hill is a far better album than it has any right to be, with its bizarre sequencing and improbable ambitions. ...more
Delusions of Adequacy
A far better album than it has any right to be. ...more
PopMatters
Elliott Smith was one of a distinguished breed of songwriters to produce deeply personal work that cut below the surface. No phony residue of artifice came between what he sang and what you heard. Smith was for real: for better (or ultimately, for worse) ...more
Playlouder
'From A Basement On The Hill' is Smiffy's first (and hopefully last) posthumous release. As a long-standing fan of the craggy-faced gent, the news of his suicide upset me. Despite a long run of cancelled UK gigs and delays to this album, Elliott ...more
NME
Elliott Smiths unfinished final album is no posthumous cash-in, and instead stands up as a fitting tribute to an immensely ...more
All Music Guide
While it's likely that From a Basement is cleaner than what Smith... intended, it is much sparer than Figure 8, and it feels at once more adventurous, confident, and warmer than its predecessor. ...more
cokemachineglow
The album is, in short, phenomenal. It certainly doesn’t match the beauty and heartbreak of Either/Or (1997), but it manages to recapture the spirit of that record while properly articulating the orchestration that Elliott had been working with for ...more

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