Slanted & Enchanted by Pavement

This is very much the Velvet Underground as seen through the lens of early 90s lo-fi shoegaze/proto-grunge. The album was recorded for $800 in a garage but still sounds pretty good to my aged ears, with droning guitars and solid drums supporting lead singer Stephen Malmus’ Lou Reed style vocals.

If I have any quibbles with this, it’s that some of the tracks feel a little short - there are 14 in 39 minutes with lots of variation and interesting ideas but too many of them fade out too quickly when they could have easily been expanded into longer freakouts.

https://album.link/gb/i/1589229771