at both tune and noise" and that the music on Slanted and Enchanted yields "a message complex enough to offer hope ... that the lyrics will catch up". Erik Davis of Spin designated Slanted and Enchanted as the magazine's "Platter du Jour" for March 1992, describing the album as "so fine it occasionally seems too perfect." Legacy Since its release Slanted and Enchanted has appeared on many critics' best-of lists and is frequently cited as being among the most influential indie rock albums of the 1990s. AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine cited the album as "a left-field classic" and "one of the most influential records of the '90s". In 2002, Pitchfork awarded the album their maximum grade of 10.0/10.0 in a review of the album's reissue and ranked it as the fifth greatest album of the 1990s in 2003. Rolling Stone called Slanted and Enchanted "the quintessential indie rock album" and placed it on the magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time In 2017, Billboard called it a "slacker masterpiece" and "the definitive indie rock album". Accolades Track listing Personnel Pavement Stephen Malkmus – lead vocals (tracks 1–9, 11–16), lead and rhythm guitar (tracks 1–16) Scott Kannberg – bass guitar (tracks 1–16), backing vocals (tracks 1–2, 4–5), lead and rhythm guitar (tracks 1–16), lead vocals (track 10) Gary Young – drums (tracks 1–16) Additional Personnel Cy Jameson – engineer (track 9) Charts Album chart usages for UK2 References External links 1992 debut albums 1992 albums Domino Recording Company albums Flying Nun Records albums Matador Records albums Pavement (band) albums Lo-fi music albums Noise pop albums