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...reissues have witnessed Pavement at their funniest (“Harness Your Hopes”), their most spontaneous (“For Sale: The Preston School of Industry”) and their most heartfelt (“All My Friends”), serving as true testaments to Pavement??s prolific grandeur and limitless creativity...
...this makes the new release of “Quarantine the Past”—Pavement??s first greatest hits album—so baffling. The very existence of a greatest hits album for this band—whose closest approximation of a hit was 1994’s “Cut Your Hair,” which peaked at the giddy height of 10 on the Billboard Alternative Chart—seems more or less unnecessary, but even when one accepts the notion, this particular collection of songs proves frustratingly off. Many classics make...
...rock song “Stereo;” the winding, wistful “Shady Lane;” the schizophrenic, sped-up “Embassy Row;” and Kannberg’s second-best song, “Date with IKEA.” Pavement??s sedate final album, “Terror Twilight,” gets the short shrift with just one track. Ethereal pop song “Spit on a Stranger” is a solid choice, but some additional context—either in the form of piano...
George Martin, the Beatles’ producer, once said of George Harrison that he was “always there yet somewhat elusive.” The same could be said of Scott Kannberg.Kannberg was Pavement??s everpresent enigma, writing a couple of songs per album but without a readily discernible style or persona. His songs tended to be impenetrable as well; even his moniker, Spiral Stairs, was adopted in order to give the band an air of mystery. Spiral Stairs was always secondary to Stephen Malkmus, the chief songwriter and public face, but as the 1990s wore...
...from surprising the listener; after all, sudden and often bizarre sonic transitions are a tradition with this band. Take the opener, “Crazy Naked Girls,” which begins with random noise that leads into a simple, maddeningly addictive riff in a manner reminiscent of Pavement??s “Silence Kit.” With crisp, brief, repeated verses and a twin-falsetto chorus—“crazy, crazy, naked girls”—it is a perfect piece of fuzz pop that is implanted in the consciousness...