It's very difficult to know how to rate an album like this. On the one hand it is an album of beauty, integrity and intellect that far surpasses 99 percent of its contemporary peers. The problem is that Steve Malkmus' debut is (and I don't say this lightly), a mediocre Pavement album. There are few of the hooks, idiosyncratic timings and raw edges that underpinned Pavements best moments and while the lyrics still tower above practically anybody else, not even the beauty of "Church on White" can deny that this is another 'pavement' album devoid of the dynamic 'highs and lows' of "Slanted&Enchanted", "Wowee Zowee" and alike....As a staunch Pavement fan, I… Read more
