Elliott Smith’s Either/Or: Expanded Edition Is Out Today
Elliott Smith’s Either/Or: Expanded Edition Is Out Today
Remastered Album Includes 5 Live Tracks + 4 Unreleased & Rare Tracks
Listen to “Bottle Up And Explode” (Alternate Version)
“A magical, alchemical mix of intimacy & bombast”
Pitchfork, 10/10
“Loving, extensive reissue”
LA Times
“Elliott Smith made a modern masterpiece on Either/Or”
Observer
“Elliott Smith’s incomparable brilliance lives on”
Guardian
To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Elliott Smith’s best-selling and greatly beloved album, Either/Or, Kill Rock Stars have released Either/Or: Expanded Edition, today on 2LP, 2CD and digital. OPD premiered the previously unreleased version of “Bottle Up And Explode” today. Listen + share here and buy the album here.
Critical praise for Either/Or: Expanded Edition has been pouring in. Pitchfork named the album “Best New Reissue,” awarding it a 10 out of 10 review. Pitchfork says “the 20th anniversary remaster of Smith’s final solo album before his major label debut highlights its inimitable sound and style: a magical, alchemical mix of intimacy and bombast.”
Either/Or: Expanded Edition features the original tracks carefully remastered from original tapes under the supervision of Larry Crane. 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 gem. The double LP is packaged in a gatefold jacket that includes an insert of the original liner notes, a postcard of the original master tapes, and several never-before seen photos. This gorgeous collection is an essential listen for longtime fans and newcomers alike.
Either/Or: Expanded Edition Track List:
1. Speed Trials (remastered)
2. Alameda (remastered)
3. Ballad of Big Nothing (remastered)
4. Between the Bars (remastered)
5. Pictures of Me (remastered)
6. No Name No. 5 (remastered)
7. Rose Parade (remastered)
8. Punch and Judy (remastered)
9. Angeles (remastered)
10. Cupid’s Trick (remastered)
11. 2:45 AM (remastered)
12. Say Yes (remastered)
13. My New Freedom (Live) (unreleased)
14. Pictures Of me (Live) (unreleased)
15. Angeles (Live) (unreleased)
16. Some Song (Live) (unreleased)
17. Rose Parade (Live) (unreleased)
18. New Monkey (keys) (unreleased)
19. I Don’t Think I’m Ever Gonna Figure It Out (remixed/remastered)
20. I Figured You Out (unreleased)
21. Bottle Up And Explode (Alternate Version) (unreleased)
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