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Review
by Jon Dolan,
eMusic
The shot heard 'round the indie rock world.
A classic New York story. A couple fresh-faced lads move from their safe college town to the big city and fall in love with the freedom of making tomorrow's sounds today. Pavement were modernist noise makers like Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker inventing bop at their late night jam sessions, or the Bronx revolutionaries who wrought hip-hop out of the rotten Apple in the '70s. Slanted is beauty collapsing, sweetness fading into static, a soft-rock séance amidst the clatter and drone of lo-fi legends like the Fall and Swell Maps. It's a summer record recorded mid-winter in a recession year, a beach record Ingmar Bergman would have liked. About 100,000 people liked it too, making a small thing seem bigger than it ever had before.
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Summer Babe (Winter Version)
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3:16 |
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Trigger Cut/Wounded-Kite at :17
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3:17 |
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No Life Singed Her
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2:08 |
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In the Mouth a Desert
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3:52 |
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Conduit for Sale!
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2:52 |
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Zurich Is Stained
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1:41 |
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Chesley's Little Wrists
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1:15 |
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Loretta's Scars
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2:55 |
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Here
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3:56 |
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Two States
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1:47 |
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Perfume-V
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2:10 |
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Fame Throwa
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3:22 |
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Jackals, False Grails: The Lonesome Era
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3:21 |
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Our Singer
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3:12 |
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Summer Baby [7
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3:14 |
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Mercy Snack: The Laundromat
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1:38 |
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Baptist Blacktick
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2:04 |
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My First Mine
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2:22 |
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Here
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3:58 |
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Nothing Ever Happens
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2:31 |
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Circa 1762
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3:27 |
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Kentucky Cocktail
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3:34 |
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Secret Knowledge of Backroads
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3:27 |
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Here
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3:48 |
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Texas Never Whispers
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3:08 |
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Frontwards
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3:16 |
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Lions (Linden)
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1:49 |
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Shoot the Singer (1 Sick Verse)
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3:15 |
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Sue Me Jack
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3:01 |
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So Stark (You're a Skyscraper)
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3:01 |
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Greenlander
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3:11 |
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Rain Ammunition
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3:24 |
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Drunks With Guns
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1:42 |
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Ed Ames
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3:22 |
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The List of Dorms
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2:25 |
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Conduit for Sale Live
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3:10 |
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Fame Throwa Live
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2:32 |
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Home Live
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3:14 |
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Perfume-V Live
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2:14 |
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Summer Babe Live
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3:21 |
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Frontwards Live
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3:18 |
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Angel Carver Blues/Mellow Jazz Docent Live
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3:01 |
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Two States Live
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1:54 |
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No Life Singed Her Live
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1:45 |
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So Stark Live
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3:56 |
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Box Elder Live
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2:44 |
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Baby Yeah Live
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2:44 |
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In the Mouth a Desert Live
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4:00 |
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