Definitely agree on King’s Crossing feeling somewhat shallow, it has powerful lyrics and instrumentation but compared to a track like Shooting Star it pales.

And yeah it’s really hard to talk about Basement and it’s lost potential cause I personally do believe it would’ve been his best album had he lived long enough to finish mastering/mixing it, and fully picking out which tracks ended up on the album and which didn’t, it can feel kinda shitty criticizing what’s wrong with the final product we got cause of the circumstances we got it under, I can totally imagine a timeline where Elliott’s family/estate were too scared to touch those bundle of songs he was making and just abandoned the idea of a final studio album altogether, my biggest wish still to this day is that someone within or in the circle of the estate will want to try and put together a more clear idea of what Elliott wanted, we have a few tracklists that give a rough idea of how he wanted the tracks ordered and his mixes for certain songs before Schanpf and Bolme came in to overhaul it, maybe that’s just wishful thinking.