Rattled by La Rush collects "Rattled by the Rush," from the band's eclectic-sounding Wowee Zowee album, and three B-sides of varying quality and interest. Pavement are up to...
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With its vast array of musical styles, Wowee Zowee isn't as accessible as Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain or as immediate as the bracing, noisy pop of Slanted & Enchanted....
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Pavement's Father to a Sister of Thought single contains the somewhat underwhelming title track, taken from the band's Wowee Zowee album, and two B-sides of differing...
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Recorded on short notice and released to coincide with an Australian tour, Pacific Trim isn't much more than a stopgap EP, but Pavement shine in such small pleasures. The...
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There's a difference between accessibility and focus, which Pavement illustrate with their fourth album, Brighten the Corners. Arriving on the heels of the glorious mess of...
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Their reticent leap into the big time, they approach it with sure-footed rockers matched up with the Cure-like "Gold Soundz" and the Fall-derived "Hit The Plane...
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Pavement's expanded double-disc 2002 reissue of Slanted & Enchanted -- dubbed Luxe & Reduxe in its deluxe incarnation -- was a landmark for expanded reissues, not just...
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Considered by some to be a landmark, it's always sounded like what I overheard it called: Jaded And Overrated. Malkmus has always been a bit characterless in his singing,...
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Slanted & Enchanted is a left-field classic, a record that came out of nowhere to help establish a new subgenre of rock & roll. Pavement had already sketched out their...
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For many fans, "Cut Your Hair"-a cunning, cynical piece about the treacherous pitfalls of the rock and roll business-was the song that first attracted them to Pavement....
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Collection of early songs, including the first single, the impressive "Box Elder." Some of this is aimless, some painfully derivative of the Fall and Swell Maps, and some...
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Trigger Cut is a short, amazing look back into Pavement's early days. Collecting "Trigger Cut" from the band's elliptical, genius album Slanted and Enchanted and two...
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With a defaced Atomic Rooster album cover for their artwork, Pavement create what could be considered a typical Pavement record, but the brevity allows for full attention to...
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Released between Slanted & Enchanted and Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, the Watery, Domestic EP captures Pavement in a transitional phase, as the band began to abandon the...
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The Shady Lane EP combines all the tracks from the two-part British single for "Shady Lane," which is presented here in a slightly faster, slightly shorter edited version....
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Some guys have all the luck; for everybody else there's sarcasm. And nobody's been better at turning a cheeky cheek than Steve Malkmus and his fellow ne'er-do-wells. No...
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Suave Pavement frontman Steve Malkmus had his nose to the proverbial grindstone since the release of Brighten the Corners in 1997, assisting DC Berman on 1998's excellent...
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Pavement's Major Leagues EP spotlights one of the group's softest, most sentimental songs to date, and includes six B-sides: a radio edit of "Major Leagues," covers of Echo...
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Even back in 1991/1992, fans, geeks, and critics found it irresistible to compare Pavement to Nirvana, the underground band that made the concessions to the mainstreams and...
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Since Pavement switched course with each record -- Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain was nothing like Slanted & Enchanted, and Brighten the Corners was decidedly different from the...
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A collection of all of Pavement's low-fidelity early singles and EPs, which feature considerably less melody than Slanted and Enchanted. It's nice to have this rare material...
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It may be a bit reductive to call Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain the Reckoning to Slanted & Enchanted's Murmur -- not mention easy, considering that Pavement recorded a...
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