Smith, Elliott - Figure 8 Released:19-05-17 retaining a little of the

retaining a little of the folky undertow of The Ballad of John Henry

Newman's assured vocal on both tracks was in part borne from the fact that he had co-written each piece

Despite Jay-Z – who’d released a full acapella version of The Black Album to encourage remixes – and Paul McCartney both giving their public approval to the project

Epic BXN 26439 made in Holland in gatefold cover with 8 page booklet

Smith, Elliott - Figure 8 Released:19-05-17 retaining a little of theNEW VINYL LP ON GEFFEN 2017 2 X 180 GRAM VINYL. Judging only by his earlier, bare bones indie label albums, it seemed highly unlikely that Elliott Smith would turn into the ambitious arranger and studio craftsman of his lushly textured Dreamworks debut, XO. A big part of that shift, of course, was the fact that Smith had major label finances and equipment to work with for the first time; this allowed him to fuse his melancholy, slightly punky folk