Synopsis Formed in Stockton, California, by songwriter Stephen Malkmus and guitarist Scott Kannberg in 1989, Pavement were a low-key phenomenon, whose sound wrapped eccentric, often indecipherable lyrics in a wash of naïve musicianship. With a drummer who spent as much time standing on his head as actually playing, and an amateurish, punk rock-inspired stage presence, the band were unlikely candidates for national success. However, they became darlings of the independent rock scene, with a sound that evolved throughout the 1990s from noisy garage punk to something approaching smoother-sounding alternative rock. British music writer and longtime Pavement fan Rob Jovanovic's biography of the influential group, PERFECT SOUND FOREVER, follows them from their humble beginnings to their later underground star status in the U.S. and Europe, and their ultimate dissolution in 2000. With a wealth of insider detail culled from a variety of sources, Jovanovic records the band's triumphs, the tensions raised by Malkmus's sometimes autocratic leadership, and the background to the writing and recording of seminal albums like 1992's SLANTED AND ENCHANTED, 1994's CROOKED RAIN, CROOKED RAIN, and 1997's BRIGHTEN THE CORNERS.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 2004-05-01 |
| Size | | Length: | 216 pages | | Height: | 9.0 in | | Width: | 7.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.8 in | | Weight: | 23.2 oz |
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