Title: Dirty, Beautiful
Product review: Pavement's early sound is every bit as stunning as their later sound, albeit much darker and less polished. The songs here have such a dirty, gritty sound that you might wonder if they weren't recorded beneath 30 feet of quick sand... In other words, this album goes way beyond lo-fi; it's more like subterranean-fi.There are several songs here that are easy to love because they have such a discernably Pavement quality to them... songs like Box Elder, Debris Slide, Summer Babe (of course), and My First Mine. The others, though, are much more alien, and will probably require repeated listens...Once you discover it's raw glory, you'll be mesmirized... as long as you don't mind getting your ears a bit dirty in the process.
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