XO

by Matthew LeMay

Many albums could be cited to support the claim that great suffering yields great art. Elliott Smith's XO should not be one of them. Smith's 1998 major label debut defies the tortured singer-songwriter stereotype, and takes up this defiance as a central theme. At a time when Smith was being groomed for a particular (and particularly condescending) brand of stardom, he produced a record that eviscerated one of the central assumptions of singersongwriterdom:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826429009
• ISBN13: 9780826429001
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.7" x 6.4"