Pavement - Terror TwilightTerror Twilight is Pavement's fifth proper studio album and perhaps their most confident effort to date. Opening with the surprisingly subdued leadoff single, the sinewy sweet Spit on a Stranger (which sounds like the Velvet Underground after a couple of cartwheels), it's clear that Pavement is in no hurry to recreate Slanted and Enchanted's fractured and raw indie pop. Instead of short bursts of jive poetry and razor guitars, the band opts for

anti-imperialist manifesto" by Mark Paytress (Mojo

“I started feeling really nostalgic” he explains

you certainly won't be disappointed here - but you might also be surprised at how the band’s sound has grown

“It’s fun to mess with things that you’re not supposed to

Modern Rock (1994) and Unknown Country (1996)

explosive organ and drum parts

to centrally situate the act of collaborative

“Sometimes you need a purpose to make music

Fiorella Terenzi on the crazed Krautrock / funk of Poet Is Priest

repeated Hang-Drum motif

thru the dustbowl history ('valley of ashes') of woody honest strait forward talk Guthrie

Taking disco as its groove-oriented departure point