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Watery, Domestic

 
Album Review: Watery, Domestic

  • Artist: Pavement
  • Rating: StarStarStar
  • Release Date: 1992 11
  • Type: Extended Play (EP)
  • Genre: Rock

Review

Released between Slanted & Enchanted and Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, the Watery, Domestic EP captures Pavement in a transitional phase, as the band began to abandon the static-laden guitar rock of their early recordings and started to move toward a cleaner sound. Most of the innovations of Watery, Domestic have to do with recording techniques, yet the songs are certainly fine. The cleaner production brings Pavement's inherent fractured melodicism into sharper focus, which benefits "Texas Never Whispers," the wistful "Frontwards," and the bright, nearly jangly "Shoot the Singer," but the slow grind of "Lions (Linden)" would have been mesmerizing regardless of the production, or the lack of it. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track TitleComposersPerformersTime
Texas Never Whispers Stephen Malkmus Pavement (3:08)
Frontwards Pavement (3:04)
Lions (Linden) Pavement (2:00)
Shoot the Singer (1 Sick Verse) Pavement (3:15)

Credits

Pavement (Main Performer), Gary Young (?), Stephen Malkmus (Guitar (Electric)), Stephen Malkmus (Vocals), Stephen Malkmus (?), Scott Kannberg (?)
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Watery, Domestic
EP by Pavement
Released November 25, 1992
Recorded 1992
Genre Indie rock
Length 11:27
Label Matador (US), Big Cat (UK)
Producer Pavement
Professional reviews
Pavement chronology
Perfect Sound Forever
(1991)
Watery, Domestic
(1992)
Rattled by la Rush
(1995)

Watery, Domestic is an EP by Pavement.

The record marked the recording debuts of both Bob Nastanovich and Mark Ibold on percussion and bass respectively - although both had been touring members for some time, the debut album, Slanted and Enchanted and the preceding EPs had been recorded by a trio of Stephen Malkmus, Spiral Stairs and Gary Young. This EP came to mark the final time Young would record with the band. All four songs can also be found on Slanted and Enchanted: Luxe & Reduxe, the liner notes to which identify a further 3 songs as having been recorded during the same session. As well as the standard CD and 12" vinyl releases, the record was also available as a 12" picture disc in the UK.

In the liner notes for the album, there is a picture of a rooster that was taken from the cover of the self-titled album by Ambergris.

"Texas Never Whispers" was sampled by Placebo for their song "Slave to the Wage" from their 2000 album Black Market Music.

"Frontwards" was covered by Cardiff-based indie-pop band Los Campesinos!.

Track listing

  1. "Texas Never Whispers" – 3:08
  2. "Frontwards" – 3:16
  3. "(Linden) Lions" – 1:49
  4. "Shoot the Singer (1 Sick Verse)" – 3:15



 
 
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