Of course the album features gems such as ‘Ballad of Big Nothing’, ‘Between the Bars’, ‘Angeles’… among many others and each song could become a classic like the beloved ‘Say Yes’, a song that fans were always requesting during live shows. According to Nielsen Music, ‘Either/Or’ entered with 5,000 other albums in the week ending March 16, with 4,000 of them in traditional album sales.

‘Either/Or’ was released in 1997, and never reached this kind of ranking until now, but the new release, a revamped version of his lo-fi album, is obviously getting a lot of attention and probably reaching a new public. If this marks the first time you will hear songs like “Pictures Of Me”, “Rose Parade”, “Angeles” or “Between The Bars”… boy, you’d better brace yourself.According to Billboard, Elliott Smith’s expanded Edition of ‘Either/Or’ has reached number 173 on the Billboard 200 albums chart! Each time a musician dies, we observe the same strange phenomenon, sales increase dramatically, and for the first time in nearly 10 years, Smith is back on the Billboard chart. If you are a longtime fan, you will find plenty of reasons here to fall in love all over again with “Either/Or”. Luckily, Crane kept the rough edges intact while at the same time making these gems shine even more. Heavily indebted to classic pop but still peppered with plenty of grit, these songs are easily some of the best Smith has ever written. All of the songs from the original have been carefully remastered from the original tapes under the supervision of Larry Crane, while the second disc features five live multi-track recordings from the Yo Yo A Go Go Festival in Olympia WA in 1997, as well as three previously unreleased studio recordings and one b-side track.

To celebrate the 20 th anniversary of Elliott Smith’s beloved album “Either/Or”, Kill Rock Stars has released an expanded version of the 1997 classic.

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