Claude says:Elliott Smith's whispered multi-tracked voice brought a fragile intimacy to his indie folk, emerging from Portland's scene in the mid-90s before an Oscar nod for "Miss Misery" pushed him into wider view. This soundtrack album leans on his Beatles cover "Because" — a hushed, layered reading that fits his spiderweb-thin delivery perfectly. A single play back in 2009 suggests you checked it out once and moved on, more curious about the cover than committed to the compilation.