Elliott Smith - Figure 8 (2LP)

Elliott Smith - Figure 8 (2LP)Geffen (2017) EU 2LP, Reissue, 180g The last album released in Smith's lifetime. Think of Figure 8 as the work of a boy who took the big, 64 sized box of crayons and made new colours that you never thought possible. The standout tracks are "Son of Sam" and "Junk Bond Trader". The wall Smith stands in front of in Autumn de Wilde's photograph on the cover of the album exists in Los Angeles, and since his death it has become a memorial to him. It is

from the stirring opener ‘Ruthless Gravity’ to the euphoric closing of ‘Choral Ending’

in Japan only and features remixes of “Blur”-era tracks by William Orbit

Alongside the announcement

of playing music and singing words that express

” are more rugged than their studio counterparts

they wordlessly ask hard questions of our softest parts

Ward (Him)

Neither recorded live nor released by an indie label

who has made his name amid the retro resurgence as a DJ specializing in funk/disco gayo from the 80s

an unresolved connection to this new record that we'd laboured over and had waited so long to release

to the dance floor-ready groove of South Africa’s BLK JKS

they deliver their most extensive work to date and reveal once more why only Röyksopp is Röyksopp