Six albums of Elliott Smith's teenage band unearthed

A lovely story in Pitchfork about Elliott Smith's teenage band Stranger Than Fiction of which the musician was kinda embarrassed. The band released six albums of guitar-based music in the 1980s, with Smith refusing to talk about later on. The P, next to the story of collecting the rare recordings, insists it's not that bad at all. "Once you make it past the surface-level impression—awkward kids making awkward stabs at rock music—these six records upend pretty much every received notion about who Smith was, what motivated him, and how he worked. Above all, craft mattered deeply to him, even at low points when it seemed that very little else did. These tapes bring that quality to the fore, presenting Elliott Smith the tinkerer, the woodshedder, the perfectionist." Listen to it here - https://youtu.be/5ZN98_iMhDA