Elliott Smith - Roman Candle
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Artist: Elliott SmithEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1995-07-14
Music Label: Cavity Search
Soundtracks:
- Roman Candle
- Condor Ave.
- No Name #1 - Elliott Smith, Garson, JJ
- No Name #2
- No Name #3
- Drive All over Town
- No Name #4
- Last Call
- Kiwi Maddog 20/20
Music reviews of Roman Candle
Music Review: "Everyone is gone, home to oblivion, home to oblivion, home to oblivion...."
Rating: 5 Stars
Emerging from the shadow of Kurt Cobain in the late 90's, Elliott Smith was perhaps the greatest singer songwriter of his generation. Smith's genius was his unabashedly honest, naked, poetic lyricism that was so beautifully complemented by his unpretentiousness acoustic guitar. Like none that came before him, Smith delivers note after note of haunted, sparkling melancholy. Far from gloomy, his songs radiate with incredible emotional intensity. Combining an unbridled punk rage within the guise of an acoustic folk song, his songs speak for themselves. Reflective and introspective, each song unfolds like a delicately wrapped package, revealing itself slowly. Smith's songs present themselves like late night thoughts that just won't go away. Concerning themselves with drug abuse, depression, and troubled relationships, Smith exorcises his inner demons and releases them in a beautiful, blinding, luminosity, albeit born from dark, painful emotional despair.
Roman Candle is the debut album of Portland Indie singer/songwriter Elliott Smith. Roman Candle was released on the small Cavity Search Label in 1994. This collection of no less than nine solo acoustic guitar tracks were recorded by Smith on an 4-track. At the time, Smith was a member of the Portland Alternative-Indie rock band Heatmiser. A departure from the trio, RC features no production, no drums, or bass. Roman Candle is intimate and you almost feel as if you're eavesdropping in on him playing behind closed doors. From the opening bars of Needle In The Hay, Smith immediately establishes the signature hallmarks of his sound. The haunted, understated delivery, the aggressive, finger picking guitar notes that pulse and radiate in flashes of color and intensity. So incognito and unpretentious is RC that you almost miss it. Until you hear it again. And again. Smith's angular melodies and intricately crafted compositions begin to take life with repeated listens. Pretty soon you are quietly singing along. Lyrically, his songs gravitate between insecurity and isolation and shine with a quiet understated brilliance, revealing a glimpse of the lyrical genius that he would become. Early on, Smith reveals an emotional intimateness that has rarely been seen before. The comparisons to Nick Drake were somewhat accurate, although Drake was more understated and less revealing. Smith was a boiling kettle just waiting to explode. He wanted to share that, and it comes across. You can feel the emotional intensity and passion he injects into his music. Although he would turn the volume up on his later work, everything was there from the beginning. On songs like Condor Ave, and No Name #3, there is a timelessness he brings forth, impressioning himself upon the listener. Roman Candle is an album that could be classified as "Vintage", "Classic" or "Timeless". Perhaps a more fitting word for the late singer is simply "Honest".
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A member of the band Heatmiser, Elliot Smith recorded home demos on any equipment he could get his hands on. His first "solo" album is a cheap four-track home recording that hints at the melodic possibilities Smith would explore in greater detail on subsequent releases. The title track is remarkable but with four songs referred to in sequential order as "No Name #1," "No Name #2," etc. ... the inspiration isn't always fully firing. Blessed with a quiet angelic voice and a lyrical mind that easily transforms the squalid details of everyday life into something worth hearing about twice, Smith stood on the verge of getting it on. With his next, self-titled release, he did.--Rob O'ConnorGeneral CDs
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