Slanted & Enchanted

by Pavement

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Today, we celebrate 30 years of Pavement’s debut full-length, Slanted & Enchanted, which was first released on this day in 1992 via Matador Records. It remains a truly monumental album – one that defined/ruined a generation and a genre, depending on who you ask.

This isn’t our first pass at the ‘Slanted and Enchanted’-anniversary-game and we’ve put decades of hard-earned know-how into making this one pop.

To start: On August 12, Pavement will release a limited-edition run of the Slanted & Enchanted on red/white/black splatter vinyl for the album's 30th anniversary.

We’ve also pressed up a lovingly detailed replica of the cassette Pavement used to shop ‘Slanted and Enchanted’ to prospective record labels, titled ‘Courting Shutdown Offers.’ This is an early version of the finished album with a different running order and a handful of alternate track titles.

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This is an early version of the finished album with a different running order and a handful of alternate track titles.

(Note: cassette tracks are the same versions as on Slanted & Enchanted)

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1.	Summer Babe (Winter Version) 03:16	buy track
2.	Trigger Cut/Wounded-Kite At :17 03:17	buy track
3.	No Life Singed Her 02:08	buy track
4.	In The Mouth A Desert 03:52	buy track
5.	Conduit For Sale! 02:52	buy track
6.	Zurich Is Stained 01:41	buy track
7.	Chesley's Little Wrists 01:15	buy track
8.	Loretta's Scars 02:55	buy track
9.	Here 03:56	buy track
10.	Two States 01:47	buy track
11.	Perfume-V 02:10	buy track
12.	Fame Throwa 03:22	buy track
13.	Jackals, False Grails: The Lonesome Era 03:21	buy track
14.	Our Singer 03:12	buy track

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"Perhaps because one half of Pavement lives in New York City and the other in a sleepy, rural, central California town called Stockton, the spirit of the band’s music is split right down the middle. Simultaneously sophisticated and unpretentious, heartfelt and totally goofy — but always entirely sincere — Pavement exhibits its genius casually. The group’s first full-length album, 'Slanted and Enchanted,' is brimming with beautiful pop songs, soured a bit by the rhythmic clamor of harder guitar rock. You can hear Pavement’s effortless charm in the evocative lyrics of songs like ”Loretta’s Scars” (”How can I make my body shed for you?”) and, ultimately, in the sheer, clangy joyfulness of the band’s playing. Pavement does lapse occasionally into superdense experimental noise fests, but it more than compensates for these indulgences with 10 cuts of solid songwriting. No matter where Pavement lived, it would be brilliant.” - Entertainment Weekly

“A marvelous piece of lazy rock'n'roll that does for the current American new wave what Teenage Fanclub's 'A Catholic Education' did for British guitar music...Almost unintentionally they've forged one of the most refreshing American noises for ages,” - NME

“What Pavement do is neither evade reality nor reflect it, but refract it through kaleidoscope-tinted vision, make it seem even more weird and wondrous, perplexing and poignant than it already is. And that’s something.” - Melody Maker

“So fine it occasionally seems too perfect” - Spin

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released April 20, 1992

Jan 13-20 1991 (except “Here” *) Stockton, CA, Louder Than You Think 16 Track

*Recorded Dec 24, 1990 at South Makepeace Studios,
Brooklyn, NY. Engineer: Cy Jameson.

Performers — Young, Stairs, S.M.
Mastered by RJ

Misty: David B, Bob N, Mark I, K-Pipe, Mark O, 611 Posse, Drag City (all exvolved)

Songs © One Last Capillary / Treble Kicker Music.
© ℗ 1992 Matador Records Inc.

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