Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain 06/09/2017 Embracing their essential identity as

Embracing their essential identity as a blue-eyed soul band

high-flown harmonies--is a case study in California country-rock with a pop twist

any release by the Smiths is indispensable to this audience

" "Cut My Lip

as is her take on Bob Marley's "Waiting in Vain" and Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale

Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain 06/09/2017 Embracing their essential identity asTuneful 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