Genres: Alternative Pop/Rock, Lo-Fi, Indie Rock, Sadcore, Alternative Singer/Songwriter Active: 80's, 90's, 2000's
Untitled, Lou Barlow, Baby Bird, Elliott Smith, Magnetic Morning, Tram, Unbunny, The Black Heart Procession, Snailhouse, Anomoanon, Hefner, Will Oldham, The Baptist Generals, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Lavender Diamond, Iron & Wine, Maquiladora, Rivulets, Royal City |  |
An under-recognized pioneer of the lo-fi revolution, Smog was essentially the alias of one Bill Callahan, an enigmatic singer/songwriter whose odd, fractured music neatly epitomized the tenets and excesses of the home-recording boom. Melancholy, poignant, and self-obsessed, Callahan's four-track output offered a peepshow view into an insular world of alienation and inner turmoil, his painfully intimate songs ping-ponging wildly through a scrapbook of childhood recollections, failed relationships, bizarre fetishes, and dashed hopes.
Smog debuted in 1988 with the spare, primitive Macrame Gunplay, a cassette-only release issued on Callahan's own Disaster label.
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Release: May 30, 2005
Label: Domino, Drag City, Pony Canyon, Spunk, British Domino
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Release: April 7, 2003
Label: Domino, Drag City, Spunk, British Domino
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