Pavement BRIGHTEN THE CORNERS

Pavement BRIGHTEN THE CORNERSPavement: Stephen Malkmus, Mark Ibold, Spiral Stairs, Bob Nastanovich, Steve West. A surprisingly divisive album when it came out in 1997, BRIGHTEN THE CORNERS was seen as too much of a softball to champions of the bizarro WOWEE ZOWEE, while those left scratching their heads after ZOWEE actually welcomed it. Whereas the latter has seemed more obviously great with each passing year, CORNERS remains what it always was a catchy set of rockers and

LET LOVE RULE is a thoroughly impressive first outing

Lee Harvey

Yams shares the executive producer credit with Danger Mouse

and a pair of rowdy

the wistful chords and progressions that are such a trademark of his sound act as a sonic through-line

building in intensity until it all comes crashing down nine minutes later

Kaidi is also a revered DJ known for rocking parties globally

Max Martin and Shellback and Tobias Jesso Jr

kick drums fall into a straighter pattern and are backed by further dusty percussion

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WHITE LIGHT/WHITE HEAT

The album succeeds not only because the exuberant pounding the band gives to the familiar "Back in Black