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Pavement reform; ageing hipsters rejoice
22 years ago
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I wasn’t a fan of Pavement when the band broke up in 1999. It was around then that I discovered them after a friend scribbled the words Date With Ikea on a list of musical recommendations. Two or three years after that I’d collected each album and would be brave enough to consider myself a “fan”. Even if I never owned this awesome t-shirt.
Even amongst the recent glut of bands getting back together, Pavement weren’t one of the ones I saw it happening with. Indeed, the original break-up was so acrimonious that some of the members only learnt of the split by reading about it online. Yet over the last couple of days, news has appeared from nowhere that the band will reform for a festival in New York next September and embark on a world tour of “major cities”. Quite how extensive this tour will be, I have no idea, but if it doesn’t at least include a London date, a lot of people will be marching on the Domino office.
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Stephen Malkmus – The Hook
03 years ago
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Stephen Malkmus will always be “that guy from Pavement”. There’s simply no getting around it. It’s something that makes appreciating his solo albums somewhat difficult. Once one manages to though, his recent work doesn’t seem quite so bad. Which isn’t to say that everything he’s done is great, but there are usually at least a couple of gems hidden on each album.
Take The Hook from his 2001 self-titled album. First of all, there aren’t enough songs about pirates. That’s something that can be proved with science. So you end with a swashbuckling adventure that is probably more about Malkmus’ time in Pavement than adventures on the high seas. As you can imagine, it’s all rather whimsical, but that’s half of it’s charm.
