Wowee Zowee by Pavement

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Released in 1995 on Matador. • • Pavement is an indie rock / alt rock band that formed in 1989 and broke up in 1999. Highly influential, yet oddly over looked. Wowee Zowee is the bands 3rd studio album. There is a reunion planned for 2010. • • People say Wowee Zowee is Pavements most experimental album, but the band says it comes off that way because it was so rushed. The record company was pressuring them to release something new, so they unleashed Wowee Zowee to mixed reviews. Some people thought it was a step backwards for them, others thought thought it was brilliant. The album is a mixed bag of songs, ranging from country, to punk, to ballads, to Pavements more slack rocker style. • • There are plenty of throw away songs on here, but also plenty of gems. The song structures on here are pretty unusual and unpredictable. Lots of warbley guitar, feedback, distortion, spontaneous outbursts of noise. Pavement songs always have a little bit of an oddball charm to them. Nothing on this album is very conventional. • • It's difficult to decipher what any of the song meaning, if any, on here are. All the lyrics just seems like quirky, off the cuff, play on words. They sound like stoned little musings mixed with some goofy inside jokes, all delivered in this quasi-literate style. They do suit the music and also probably contribute a great deal to Pavements slacker rock reputation. Malkmus has admitted to smoking large quantities of weed while making this album. • • Over all, this album wasn't immediately accessible. You have to listen to it a few times before the charm finally rises to the surface. Wowee Zowee does have it's finer moments, but for the most part is a very disjointed affair. It's definitely an album high points and low points, but as a whole is very unique and a very fun to experience. Pavement don't really release bad albums, but if you want a more cohesive and thought album, this isn't it. Wowee Zowee is excellent when it's good and just meh when it's not. • • 3.6/5 • • • • • • • • YWIR's Tip Jar • http://yourewrongimright.webs.com/

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