Elliott Smith - Either / Or (2 Lp's) Afro-Cuban Jazz The dazzling and layered fourth

The dazzling and layered fourth Dre collaboration

play like coded spells set to music

and is being produced by hard-core rap/rock guru Rick Rubin--and the results are startling

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Elliott Smith - Either / Or (2 Lp's) Afro-Cuban Jazz The dazzling and layered fourthThis singer songwriter can say more with a whisper than most folks can with a scream. The gently insinuating despair of Smith's work communicates volumes about the heartbreak and alienation that is the bane of 20th century boys with too much time on their hands. Smith's day job fronting the aggressive post punk band Heatmiser provides him with the necessary yang to produce the quiet, evocative yin of his solo work. On EITHER OR, Smith observes a