On Thu, 10 Jun 1999 02:40:15 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, Kristin!
>ok. i heard the new pavement for the first time yesterday, so i'm not too
>sure about how i feel about it...i love the 5th track the most so far. the
>album overall strikes me as odd because it's the same pavement sounding like
>a very different pavement, does that make sense?
It defintely does... This album is excellent, even though it sounds
completely different from all their previous material (even Brighten the
Corners wasn't like that!). And yes, "Major Leagues" is one of the best
tracks there, but the ones I've fallen in love at first sight (listen?)
were "Billie" and "Platform Blues".
> it's very obvious that that nigel guy who produced ok computer was involved...
> that's probably why it sounds so weird. it's kinda spacey and clean, which i think
>is due to him,
>and that style seems to work better for radiohead than for pavement.
Have you checked Beck's "Mutations"? It kinda goes through the same
process, it's so so cleaner... and lots of background sfx... it rocks too.
But I sincerely don't think that Nigel's production has, uh, injured
Pavement's music... and this album almost hadn't collaboration by Scott
Kannberg (you know, "Spiral Stairs"), it was mostly compositions by
Malkmus himself... so let's not throw all the blame on Nigel.
> i guess they have to try different things to avoid an artistic stagnation, though.
Indeed.
cheers,
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