Smith had a good reason to be annoyed the one thing that the two musicians had in common was simply that they played an acoustic guitar-a quality that arguably connects the vast majority of rock musicians. And that’s another way in which Smith was unlike Paul Simon Simon’s done plenty worse that he hasn’t apologized for. He called Simon’s lyrics “corny” in an interview with Australian fanzine Spunk, which he later apologized for. And the fact that his self-titled 1995 Kill Rock Stars debut-a primarily acoustic record of stripped-down lo-fi indie folk-seemed to yield the comparisons only seemed to annoy him. He was never married to Carrie Fisher, and he never made a cameo in a Woody Allen movie. He never recorded with Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Elliott Smith also didn’t particularly like being compared to Paul Simon. Both take us to the outdoors somewhere on the West Coast, the dusk enshrouding us.Elliott Smith didn’t sound like Paul Simon. In Radelet’s take, raw acoustic guitar strums are replaced with a piano and the gentle crashing of waves. In Smith’s version, subtle shifts in wind and crickets ringing in the night were sewn into the background of the track. Radelet’s version does the original justice. I still feel a sort of homesick nostalgia every time I hear one of his songs, and I’ll forever associate his music with the rainy weather and the gritty, small town feeling Portland had back then.”

“Growing up in Portland, I couldn’t help but be influenced by Elliott Smith,” Radelet said in a press statement. And today, former lead singer Ruth Radelet officially launched her own solo career with a cover of Elliott Smith’s “Twilight.” But when a door closes, windows often open-founder Adam Miller already announced his forthcoming solo album Gateway that’s out next February.

A few months ago, electronic music group Chromatics officially broke up.

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