Pavement
Brighten the Corners

Pavement?s languid yet hysterical shredding of North American rock always reminds me of the scene in Blue Velvet, where cleancut Jeffrey Beaumont brea...

Among fans and critics, the commonly accepted maxim is that, while they have no bad albums, they most certainly have two rock solid classics?Slanted a...

It remains a curiosity. Revolving vocal duties and a disparate attitude towards genre, let alone song-writing, make Brighten the Corners a difficult a...

Continuing in Domino's deluxe repackaging of the Pavement albums – now becoming something of a bi-annual treat – we have now come to the f...

In 1997, these slacker romantics slowed things down and serenaded their fans, delivering an album short on noise and long on artfully dissonant ballad...

By the time they?d recorded their fourth album, slacker gods Pavement had done off-kilter artsiness, fractured improv rock and guitar-shaman freakoute...

Within Pavement’s brilliantly art-shambled oeuvre, Brighten the Corners has always been the record plagued by the middle-child syndrome: The fir...

For a band that often seemed be on the verge of a commercial breakthrough, Pavement made all the right moves-- they just did them in the wrong order. ...

As most highly influential bands do, Pavement spent most of their active years being fawned over by college fanzines, perhaps only truly receiving the...

Matador's biennial mission to give each Pavement album the deluxe reissue treatment continues. This year, it's Brighten The Corners, the band's fourth...