Pavement
Brighten The Corners LP vinyl

For many hard-time fans, Brighten the Corners is part of the holy trinity with Crooked Rain and Wowee Zowee. As such it combines the anarchy of the band's previous slop with a expert grasp on hook and pop dynamics. Before we get all nostalgic about how great this record is let's just consider the songs in cold contemporary light: the wild pop ecstasy of Stereo, the sweetly melancholic Shady Lane, the crooked joyful Type Slowly and the lo-fi poet punk of Embassy Row. All of these tracks are embedded in the indie psyche and for good reason.

NEW / Released in 1997 / Reissue 2015

Tracklist:

A1 Stereo

A2 Shady Lane / J Vs. S

A3 Transport Is Arranged

A4 Date W/ IKEA

A5 Old To Begin

A6 Type Slowly

B1 Embassy Row

B2 Blue Hawaiian

B3 We Are Underused

B4 Passat Dream

B5 Starlings Of The Slipstream

B6 Fin