Pavement "Slanted & Enchanted" (30th Anniversary) Color:Red & White Splatter and 'I Will Follow You

and 'I Will Follow You into the Dark'

and plenty of brash guitar solos that take songs like You Are My Face and Shake It Off in thrilling

release their first new album in eight years

Matt Jordan

Pavement "Slanted & Enchanted" (30th Anniversary) Color:Red & White Splatter and 'I Will Follow You"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 it's genius casually. The group's first full length album, Slanted and Enchanted, is brimming with beautiful pop songs, soured a bit