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Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
by Pavement
The 200th greatest album of all time
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (1994) by Pavement blends slacker-era indie rock with sharper songcraft and clearer production than the band’s earlier lo-fi recordings. The album pairs chiming, guitar-driven arrangements and offhand, oblique lyrics with melodic hooks and a relaxed, conversational vocal delivery, moving between hazy, noisy textures and more straightforward pop-leaning songs. Its mix of casual irony and tunefulness is a defining example of 1990s indie and alternative rock aesthetics.
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