4/17/2023 0 Comments Elliott smith either or portlandSmith released his debut solo album, Roman Candle, in 1994. Smith tapped into the same existential gloom explored in the '80s by the Wipers' Greg Sage, who once described Portland as "Doomtown." It wasn't obvious back in 2003, but it's clear now: Elliott Smith was the last man living in Doomtown. It was the end of gloomy, earnest Old Portland and the birth of whimsical New Portland, the "youth magnet city" of craft beer and chickens with names. And those bands emerged around 2003, the same year Smith died and Voodoo Doughnut opened. These bands tend toward the conceptual, not the personal. Today, local bands like the Decemberists sing about dirigibles, shipyards and CIA operative Valerie Plame, while Menomena mounts ironic album-release parties set to Pink Floyd laser shows at OMSI.
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