Figure 8

Figure 8 is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Elliott Smith. Released by DreamWorks Records on April 18, 2000, it became Smith's second release on a major label and the last album he would complete before his death. Compared to Smith's earlier work, Figure 8 is more instrumentally ornate, and the lyrics are more impressionistic. Smith described the songs on the album as "more fragmented and dreamlike". Pitchfork placed Figure 8 at number 190 on their list of the 200 greatest albums of the 2000s. Rolling Stone placed it at number 42 on their list of the 100 greatest albums of the decade.