Pavement

Recording in 24 tracks for the first time, Pavement's signature sound emerges from its watery fuzz virtually intact-– the band is itself, only more so. The enhanced equipment captures crystal sharp guitar licks and frees vocalist Stephen Malkmus' ever expanding vocal range, creating a texture that allows for the full fruition of some of the band's more adventuresome tendencies. Tracks like the aptly dubbed "Folk Jam" and the lofty rocker "The Hexx" would have been impossible under the old regime, but here they flower with ease. Construing this newfound sonic lucidity as a sell out, however, would be erroneous. While surefire singles "Spit On a Stranger" and "Carrot Rope" find Pavement at their most earnest, they bookend some of the band's meatiest and most esoteric work to date. Both "Billy" and "Speak, See, Remember" shed many masks before revealing themselves, while the album sandwiches the subdued guitar anthem, "Cream Of Gold," between the swaggering ballads "You Are a Light" and "Major Leagues."
With OK Computer, Radiohead stepped off alternative rock's sinking ship on to the dry land of classicism, coloring the grand vision and aspirations of '60s and '70s rock with a dose of '90s realism and integrity. Similarly, Pavement seems poised for its grab at history on Terror Twilight; finally ready to assume the Velvet Underground's long unworn crown as rock music's most ingenious creators, diligent observers, and unique, confident voices.

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