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Either/Or

★★★★☆  album

Either/Or

Elliott Smith’s hushed, double-tracked sorrow manifests as simultaneous lullaby and valedictory warning; ‘between the bars’ becomes a threshold where beauty and devastation converge. Approach with the gravity the work demands.

what it left me with

The gentlest voices often bear the heaviest truths; look carefully toward those who speak softly.

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