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Review title: Elliott Has Left Us With A Gem
Product review: The fact that this album was released a year or so after Smith's death makes each song on From A Basement On The Hill all the more intensely poignant. To be brutally frank, the tracks on this album have far greater effect than any of his previously released ones because he proved that he wasn't overreacting or overdramatising his heartache or existential woes - they were real. If anyone else had written the line, "I can't prepare for death anymore than I already have" (King's Crossing) you'd just label it as angst. That it's so openly confessed in this album makes it one of the most confronting lines ever written. But this album is not consistently what you'd expect from a man on the verge of suicide. It also features some of his most uplifting work like Pretty (Ugly Before). Sometimes the emotional intensity of From A Basement On The Hill is a lot to take, but it is a beautiful album with Smith's delicacy and rawness displayed to full effect.
