Pavement - Watery, Domestic (Black Vinyl)

Pavement - Watery, Domestic (Black Vinyl)Released between Slanted & Enchanted and Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, the Watery, Domestic EP captures Pavement in a transitional phase, as the band began to abandon the static laden guitar rock of their early recordings and started to move toward a cleaner sound. Most of the innovations of Watery, Domestic have to do with recording techniques, yet the songs are certainly fine. The cleaner production brings Pavement's inherent fractured melodicism into

Staying true to the psychedelic minimalism and definitive pop-structures that remain key components of the band’s signature sound

but it remains as ugly as ever

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“Disgrace”

Gastr Del Sol's David Grubbs adds his guitar to two songs

adding marimba

“Where The Devil Dont Stay” and “Puttin People On The Moon” as well as rarities like “Goode’s Field Road” and “Daddy’s Cup

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The pair also enlisted Liam Stewart (percussion)

Romanticism is never far from laughter

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