Pavement
Brighten the Corners
back on wax for many hardtime fans 'brighten the corners' is part of the holy trinity with 'crooked rain' and 'wowee zowee' as such it combines the anarchy of the band's previous slop with a expert grasp on hook and pop dynamics before we get all nostalgic about how great this record is let's just consider the songs in cold contemporary light the wild pop ecstasy of 'stereo' the sweetly melancholic 'shady lane' the crooked joyful 'type slowly' and the lofi poet punk of 'embassy row' all of these tracks are embedded in the indie psyche and for good reason