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- Date Released: May 1, 1992
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Indie Rock
- Label: Matador
The shot heard 'round the indie rock world.
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We Say...
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
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They Say...
Slanted & Enchanted is a left-field classic, a record that came out of nowhere to help establish a new subgenre of rock & roll. Pavement had already sketched out their sound, as well as their amateurish lo-fi aesthetic, on a series of indie singles before recording their debut, but Slanted & Enchanted is where they pulled all of their disparate sounds together into a distinctive style. At first, the primitive sound of the record is the most gripping thing about Slanted, but soon the true innovations of the record appear through the songs themselves. Stephen Malkmus and Spiral Stairs subvert conventional pop structures, turning melodies inside out, reinterpreting and reworking older songs, and bending genres together. It's a complex, enthralling record, filled with fractured riffs, strong melodies, and cryptic melodies, and with all the hiss and static, Slanted & Enchanted sounds like listening to a distant college radio station -- melodies and hooks keep floating in and out of the mix, with individual lines instead of full lyrics surfacing through the murk. This unique song structure as much as the sound of the album itself makes Slanted & Enchanted an individual, signature work and one of the most influential records of the '90s.
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Summer Babe (Winter Version) |
3:16 |
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| 02. | |
Trgger Cut / Wounded-Kite at :17 |
3:16 |
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| 03. | |
No Life Singed Her |
2:09 |
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In The Mouth A Desert |
3:52 |
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| 05. | |
Conduit For Sale! |
2:52 |
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| 06. | |
Zurich Is Stained |
1:41 |
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| 07. | |
Chesley's Little Wrists |
1:16 |
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Loretta's Scars |
2:55 |
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| 09. | |
Here |
3:56 |
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Two States |
1:47 |
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| 11. | |
Perfume-V |
2:10 |
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Fame Throwa |
3:22 |
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Jackals, False Grails: The Lonesome Era |
3:22 |
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Our Singer |
3:09 |
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14 Total Tracks, 39:03 Total Length
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Credits
- Pavement - Main Performer // Gary Young - ? // Stephen Malkmus - Guitar (Electric) // Stephen Malkmus - Vocals // Stephen Malkmus - ? // Scott Kannberg - ?
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