elliott smith either or remastered digital

#Elliott smith either or remastered digital full

He even plays My New Freedom, another rarity that never received an official album release. It's definitely not the best live recording (I think that honour goes to the Stockholm, Sweden bootleg on YouTube) but it's definitely not unpleasant. Their existence was hinted at when the Heaven Adores You sountrack landed and it seems that there's more to that set than just Elliott's recording of Say Yes. The live recordings, however, seem to be entirely new and have not previously been leaked. Keen listeners will probably already be aware that these songs have been floating around for ages and if you've grabbed any of the unreleased or rarities compilations on the web you've definitely heard these before. So if the original songs are either slightly better or noticeably worse what else is there? Aside from the new version of Bottle Up and Explode, Elliott's version of the Mary Lou Lord song he wrote for her, and the live stuff there's the keys intro to a leak of New Monkey and an official release of I Don't Think I'm Ever Gonna Figure You Out. It might even be worse in the remaster as it seems every song has been made louder, a trend that's been pervasive in music releases in the last 15 years and something that I would've hoped the guys in charge of an Elliott Smith release wouldn't have fallen prey to. Worse is that existing issues, like the hiss from the drum track during Speed Trials, an issue that has existed since the album's original release and came as a result of Elliott's recording choices, still exist. There is noticeable distortion on the acoustic guitar tracks, especially the lower notes of Between the Bars.

#Elliott smith either or remastered digital full

The full band songs seem to have received the best results from the remaster but as soon as there's an acoustic guitar standing on it's own, particularly with the intro to Ballad of Big Nothing and the entirety of Between the Bars, the sound suffers and the negatives of the remaster really come to light. The nitpicks will have a point though and I'll get back to them.įor the most part the remaster is either barely noticeable, a marginal improvement in the case of Cupid's Trick, or objectively worse.

Even with the issues this remaster has it is in no way unlistenable. Before getting into this I would like to iterate that Either/Or is a fantastic album and some of these will be nitpicks. This version has been remastered by Larry Crane, the archivist of the estate of Elliott, and features the Either/Or album remastered in it's entirety, a handful of rarities, a -side, a few live songs from Elliott's 1997 Yo Yo a Go Go performance, an Elliott Smith recording of a Mary Lou Lord song, and an entirely new version of Bottle Up and Explode that has never been leaked or released prior to this. If you haven't been in the loop Either/Or has received a re-release for it's 20th anniversary. With the release of the Either/Or remaster and it's arrival on my front porch yesterday evening I finally got around to listening to it and.