Something Happened: Elliott Smith's real-life blur
James Hunter, L.A. Weekly, May 1997
BORED BY stories, interested in the unruliness of things. Portland's Elliott Smith is a singer-songwriter suspicious of singer-songwriter certainties. Angles, hypotheses, probabilities, lucid emotions arising out of blurry scenarios animate his music, not confessions or epiphanies or clear plots.
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