Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

Track 11 should be "Hit The Plane Down" more words bullshit

Good lord is this a great record with the sound to match it. Wow. So pleasantly surprised when I took a chance on it.

Side 2 has some surface noise during softer sections of tracks, but it's constant on that side. Still, overall, a good record, I grew up loving this album, so I gave it 4 stars, which would be a 5 star top shelf without the popping on side 2.

Very nice deluxe edition that has some meat on it's bones. The extra songs are not extraneous, they are glorious. If you're a Pavement fan you will enjoy this double CD release.

usual matador quality, also known as pretty noisy, like all the matador records I own

Can anyone please confirm that this is a repress of the Kevin Gray mastered RTI pressing from 2007? And if so, is there any way to differentiate a sealed copy from the Wes Garland cut?

I'm going through my collection to add to Discogs and I wasn't sure what to expect with this pressing being a "low price" version, but I was very pleasantly surprised. I've listened to this album for years (since bought new 10+ years ago), and I found coming back to albums now with much more knowledge about vinyl music, I'm often left disappointed in what was once acceptable. This was not the case here: this vinyl is well-pressed with a big, full sound. I don't pick up any additional instrumentation compared to a digital copy, but the music has more body on this record than my CD. Perfectly serviceable copy here.
{ Pro-ject X-1 turntable with Sumiko Moonstone cart. }

This is the one to get, sonically. Compared against the newest reissues, this one has more depth and a bigger soundstage. Also, the glossy jacket and thick cardstock inner sleeve is really nice.

Through some research, this is the same lacquer cut as the Matador US version.

Sounds brilliant. Punchy and dynamic and a good pressing too.

Highly recommended