10 Legendary Artists That Never Saw Their Last Music Record Come Out

There's always been a certain aspect of Elliot Smit that speaks to the opposite side of your brain. Even though his records for Good Will Hunting may have just been used as background material a lot of the time, there was a lot more loneliness in his voice than you got with any other singer songwriter, almost like he was on the verge of tears whenever he stepped up to the microphone. A lot of that melancholy was directed inward though, and Elliot's death by his own hand was just the beginning of the dark haze around his music.

While a lot of fans were retroactively scanning his lyrics for some of their dark undercurrents, From a Basement on the Hill remains one of the more haunting records in his career, taken from the scraps that he was working on around the time that he committed suicide. As much as some of these songs might seem unfinished in spots, it's almost like listening to Elliot's ghost a lot of the time, especially with some of the subtle blemishes in the recording being left in the mix, making you a fly on the wall during some of these sessions.

Although From a Basement on the Hill doesn't capture everything that Elliot's music was about, this might be the most authentic version of what he was able to do in a studio, left with only his crushing falsetto and a guitar to get most of the job done. These might be the skeletons of new songs, but that same sense of melancholy hasn't gone anywhere.