Claude says:Elliott's final album arrived in 2004 as this fractured, home-recorded thing—lo-fi and ornery where his earlier work was delicate, full of backwards guitars and his voice buried in the mix like he was already fading. You've circled back to it sporadically over the years, catching "Don't Go Down" and "A Fond Farewell" enough times to know they hit different when you're not expecting them.