Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain 7" California in 1978

California in 1978

" which encapsulates the entire album in one song

" even though it is also metaphorical

and is fairly difficult to find

perversely repetitious rhythms of "What Goes On" and the ironically revelatory "I'm Beginning To See The Light" the band blares away with such determinism it sounds like they're trying to bore a hole through the bottom of the stage

Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain 7" California in 1978Tuneful without being soft, confident without being pompous, hip without being inaccesible, CROOKED RAIN, CROOKED RAIN was a huge leap for Pavement up the rock & roll evolution cycle. They may have gained some pop smarts, but a casual listen to the dissonant guitar solo of "Cut Your Hair" proves that the seeds planted with 1989's first SLAY TRACKS EP have come to their logical fruition. Stephen Malkmus and co. created an album that neither short