Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked RainTuneful 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

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but unbeknown to them the group had something even slicker up its sleeve

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casting a spell so powerful that even a song as universal as David Bowie's "Let's Dance" felt not only new but irrevocably his