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Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain : L.A.'s Desert Origins

Pavement may have been alternative rock's most notorious mess, but this deluxe reissue of their best album, appended with nearly forty extra tracks, illuminates one of their precious gifts: Like nobody else, the Stockton, California, band could make simple pop-rock chords sound really, really sarcas...

2004 RS: 5of 5 Stars

Slanted & Enchanted: Luxe & Reduxe

2002

Terror Twilight

1999

Brighten The Corners

1997

Wowee Zowee

1995

Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

1994

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Mixing cacophony and elegant pop, Pavement was arguably the most popular and influential "lo-fi" indie-rock band of the '90s. By the time of its breakup in 2000, the group had worked with big-name producers and traded detuned guitars and sci-fi sound effects for low-key sophistication. Pavement began in late 1988/early 1989, when primary songwriter Stephen Malkmus and longtime friend Scott Kannber...

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