- indie rock
- 58 min
- 15 tracks
- Kill Rock Stars
From a Basement on the Hill is the sixth and final studio album by the American singer-songwriter Elliott Smith. Recorded from 2000 to 2003, and faced with multiple delays due to Smith's personal problems leading up to his death, it was released posthumously in the UK and Europe on Domino on October 18, 2004, and in the US the following day on October 19, 2004, through record label Anti-, almost a year after his death.
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Character
Character-led, spare, grave and earnest.
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
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What critics gave it
Metacritic 88/100
- AllMusic4.5/5 ★
- Entertainment WeeklyA−
- The Guardian5/5 ★
- Los Angeles Times4/4 ★
- Mojo4/5 ★
- NME9/10
- Pitchfork7.2/10
- Q4/5 ★
- Rolling Stone3.5/5 ★
- SpinA−
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Tracks
- 1Coast to Coast5:34
- 2Let’s Get Lost2:27
- 3Pretty (Ugly Before)4:46
- 4Don’t Go Down4:34
- 5Strung Out Again3:13
- 6A Fond Farewell3:58
- 7King’s Crossing4:58
- 8Ostrich & Chirping0:34
- 9Twilight4:29
- 10A Passing Feeling3:32
- 11The Last Hour3:28
- 12Shooting Star6:02
- 13Memory Lane2:31
- 14Little One3:15
- 15A Distorted Reality Is Now a Necessity to Be Free4:33
15 tracks, 58 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Elliott Smith
- Label
- Kill Rock Stars
- Released
- October 18, 2004
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Digital Media
- Country
- XW
From MusicBrainz, the earliest official release of this album.
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