Terror Twilight [1999 vinyl LP, Matador Records]

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Original 1999 vinyl LP release on Matador Records. Record and cover are in excellent to near mint condition. Plays extremely well. Includes original inner sleeve.
Release Year: 1999 Record Label: Matador (record label) Genre: Lo Fi, Rock & Pop
Track Listing
Side one 1. Spit on a Stranger
2. Folk Jam
3. You Are a Light
4. Cream of Gold
5. Major Leagues
6. Platform Blues
Side two 7. Ann Don't Cry
8. Billie
9. See, Remember Speak
10. The Hexx
11. Carrot Rope

Details Playing Time: 44 min. Producer: Nigel Godrich Distributor: Alternative Dis. Alliance Recording Type: Studio Recording Mode: Stereo SPAR Code: n/a
Album Notes
Pavement: Stephen Malkmus, Spiral Stairs (vocals, guitar); Mark Ibold (bass); Steven West, Bobby Nastanovich (drums).Additional personnel: Johnny Greenwood (harmonica); Dominic Mercott (drums).Personnel: Stephen Malkmus (vocals, electric guitar).Recording information: London, England (06/1998-12/1998); New York, NY (06/1998-12/1998).Directors: Spike Jonze; Lance Bangs.Unknown Contributor Roles: Mark Ibold; Scott Kannberg; Stephen Malkmus; Steve West; Bob Nastanovich.Where 1997's BRIGHTEN THE CORNERS saw Stephen Malkmus and his merry band of indie rock pranksters shine a light on the band's rock-centric qualities, TERROR TWILIGHT harkens back to '95s WOWEE ZOWEE, when Pavement were all about the shambolic sprawl of Alternative possibility. Of course, four years later the context is entirely different--the band's fate as rock's (commercially unsuccessful) great post-Nirvana hope is nearly sealed. And maybe that's where both the terror and the twilight come into play--in the realization that preaching sprawling possibility to the converted is more a noose than an open field, that failed expectations are a setting sun.So, a downbeat spirit pervades TWILIGHT's songs. And in this gloom, Malkmus looks for and finds soft, dark, melodic wonders: "Spit on a Stranger" turns its eye towards relationships, "Major Leagues" towards a careerist's self-worth, and "Ann Don't Cry" tries to be an anthem for outsiders while visibly flashing its own lonely tear. It's not until the closing "Carrot Rope," a sunny bit of mid-tempo Pavement-pop-foolery with two competing and overlapping vocals, that a major-key ray of light is cast upon the proceedings. Let's hope that this little light is enough to get them through the night.