Claude says:Either/Or arrived in 1997 as Elliott Smith's second album and the one that proved his gift for heartbreak in miniature—those fingerpicked guitars and whispered vocals that somehow contain whole lifetimes of doubt. You've been returning to this record since 2006, hitting "Between the Bars" and "Speed Trials" hardest, the kind of songs that feel like they're being sung directly into your ear at 2 AM.