Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

Spin (9/99, p.150) - Ranked #62 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s." New York Times (1/5/95, p.C15) - Included on Neil Strauss' list of the Top 10 Albums Of '94 - "...[CROOKED RAIN] has so many twists, turns, allusions and contradictions that it deserves its own set of Cliff Notes." Spin (12/94, p.78) - Ranked #13 in Spin's list of the `20 Best Albums Of The Year' - "...magic....New York punk with extra bend..." Village Voice (2/28/95) - Ranked #2 in the Village Voice's 1994 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll. NME (12/24/94, p.22) - Ranked #17 in NME's list of the `Top 50 Albums Of 1994.' Rolling Stone (2/24/94, p.55) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...an album that's darker and more beguiling than their heralded previous efforts....CROOKED RAIN's clean production and insidiously catchy melodies hardly signify that Pavement have sold out--if anything, their vision is more warped and caustic than before...." Village Voice (2/22/94, p.61) - "...Like R.E.M., whose taste for romantic melodicism and lyrical obscurity they equal if not exceed, and Sonic Youth, whose love of noise and the underground that nurtures it they share, Pavement are American originals..." - Rating: A New York Times (3/13/94, p.38) - "...at heart, CROOKED RAIN is an album that celebrates and denigrates itself....an album largely about the plight of rock bands that, like Pavement, are poised between critical and popular success...." Melody Maker (2/5/94, p.28) - "...So good they named it twice....Pavement invent and invert and kick ass and kick the brow of greatness...." NME (2/12/94, p.39) - 8 (out of 10) - "...Another set of giant steps, without a doubt..."

Second album after the breakthrough debut 'Slanted And Enchanted' from American quintet led by songwriter Stephen Malkmus. 'Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain' is a cleaner more laid back collection than it's lo-fi predecessor, includes the near hit 'Cut Your Hair'.|