ELLIOT SMITH / XO

the album's] fourteen tracks displays his inarguable mastery of the pop song structure more clearly than ever." In it's retrospective review, BBC Music wrote, "the budget might have gone up, but Smith's masterful way with an understated melody and melancholic lyric remained firmly intact", calling XO "perhaps the greatest long-player Smith released; if not, it's certainly the equal of the preceding Either/Or. Repeat listens don't dull it in the slightest, every barbed one-liner and exhalation of despair perfectly preserved". - Disc 1 - 1 Sweet Adeline 2 Tomorrow Tomorrow 3 Waltz #2 (Xo) 4 Baby Britain 5 Pitseleh 6 Independence Day 7 Bled White - Disc 2 - 1 Waltz #1 2 Amity 3 Oh Well, Ok 4 Bottle Up and Explode! 5 A Question Mark 6 Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands 7 I Didn't Understand