Pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked RainTuneful without being soft, confident without being pompous, hip without being inaccesible, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain was a huge leap for Pavement up the rock and roll evolution cycle. They may have gained some pop smarts, but a casual listen to the dissonant guitar solo of Cut Your Hair proves that the seeds planted with 1989's first Slay Tracks EP have come to their logical fruition. Stephen Malkmus and co. created an album that neither short

Johnson recorded for both Twilight and Hi in the late 1960s and early 1970s

‰۝ or just want a great blast of outsider

There‰۪s a talented backing behind

Their debut album

Originally recorded in 1071 and 1978 by Fela Kuti‰۪s band Africa 70

upping the sugar quotient along with the strychnine in a line of insanely hilarious new music hybrids aplenty

‰۪ is the next step in Tom Krell

the modern lovers and the velvet underground

hate-filled bashing of humanity

And those songs: joyous slices of classic pop songwriting brimming with heart and wit

Nothing More Than Everything To Me

Beach House