Claude says:Smith's major-label debut added strings and horns to his whisper-close arrangements without losing the intimacy that made Either/Or essential — critics at the time called it a tastefully commercialized production that did him a solid service, and it landed at number five on the Village Voice's 1998 poll. You got into it eight years after release, in the summer of 2006, and came back this past March after nearly two decades away.