Easy Way Out

Figure 8
Studio album by Elliott Smith
Released	April 18, 2000
Recorded	Abbey Road Studios, London Capitol Studios, Hollywood Sonora Studios, LA Sunset Sound Recorders, Hollywood
Genre	Indie rock
Length	52:06
Label	DreamWorks Records
Producer	Tom Rothrock Rob Schnapf Elliott Smith
Professional reviews
Allmusic link Pitchfork (6.9/10) 4/1/2000 Robert Christgau link Rolling Stone 4/27/2000 Feel The Word (favorable) link
Elliott Smith chronology
XO (1998) Figure 8 (2000) From a Basement on the Hill (2004)

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. It was recorded at Sunset Sound in Hollywood, Sonora Studios in Los Angeles, Capitol Studios in Hollywood, and Abbey Road Studios in London ("Stupidity Tries", "In the Lost and Found (Honky Bach)" and "Pretty Mary K"). The album was also released on double vinyl 12" on Bong Load Custom Records, and later rereleased by Plain Records in 2008. It is also available as a digital download.

The title is thought to be taken from a song by Schoolhouse Rock!; Smith covered this song, but it did not make the final track listing.

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".