My obsession with Elliott Smith is borderline unhealthy. Perfect rainy day music (which makes it particularly appropriate for today in NYC).  Elliott songs carry an improbable dichotomy of being soft, warm, and sweet sounding, with lyrics that feel barren, cold, and dejected.  The two opposites play well together.  On top of it all, Elliott’s acoustic guitar work is mesmerizing and, his voice has an addictive gentle gruffness.
Anyway, I nearly jumped out of my chair when I just read that unreleased Elliott Smith track have just surfaced on the web.  I’m slowly downloading them as we speak (my connection’s slow because I’m “borrowing” it from my neighbors’ wifi), but I thought I would sacrifice a few kilobytes of bandwidth to blog about this terrific find.  I found it view Pitchfork News, so check out this brief review.  But first, grab the new unreleased songs.