Terror Twilight
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Terror Twilight is the fifth and final studio album by the American rock band Pavement . It was released in June 1999. A few months later, the band broke up.
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Terror Twilight was recorded between June and December 1998 in New York City and London . The album was produced and mixed by Nigel Godrich , who made a name for himself through his collaboration with the British band Radiohead . Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood plays the Harmonica on Platform Blues and Billie . It is the only album by Pavement that does not contain compositions by Scott Kannberg.
Terror Twilight is considered the "roundest" and highest quality sounding studio album of the group, which is attributed to Godrich's contribution. Bob Nastanovich called it Pavement's only coherent album. Stephen Malkmus described Terror Twilight in retrospect as "overproduced".
“That was a real, classic rock, overproduced, $ 100,000 record. With that much money you should be able to make something good. We made some things that weren't as good as they could've been. There was a big argument about the order of the songs. No one really cares about this album that much. "
The song Carrot Rope was the band's most successful single in the UK . Malkmus didn't like his "pop song", however. It is not included on the best-of- album Quarantine the Past: The Best of Pavement , nor did the band play it on the 2010 Reunion tour.
"Some people might say that" Carrot Rope "is a rather odd way for Pavement to leave the Earth. Terror Twilight had a lot of interesting arguments about sequencing. In the end, one of the members of the band won out, and "Spit on a Stranger" went first and it was front-loaded. And one of the guys that wasn't in the band that worked on it a lot wasn't into that order, and he was right probably, but he wasn't in the band, so .... Anyway, I have no idea what's going on with that song. Just completely absurd. Almost like a show tune. "
The idea for the album title Terror Twilight goes back to Bob Nastanovich and describes the time after sunset when, according to statistics, most car accidents happen.
The album was released in the US by Matador Records and in the UK by Domino Records . Virgin Records took over distribution in Germany .
Track list
All songs are written by Stephen Malkmus .
- Spit on a Stranger - 3:04
- Folk Jam - 3:34
- You Are a Light - 3:54
- Cream of Gold - 3:47
- Major Leagues - 3:24
- Platform Blues - 4:42
- Ann Don't Cry - 4:09
- Billie - 3:44
- Speak, See, Remember - 4:19
- The Hexx - 5:39
- Carrot Rope - 3:52
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Pavement's last album was received positively as a mature late work by an outgoing band. Stephen Thomas Erlewine praised the careful reorientation of the "signature sound" and praised Terror Twilight as a "fitting, bittersweet farewell for the best band of the 90s."
“Many therefore consider Pavement's debut“ Slanted and Enchanted ”from 1992 to be the perfect indie record. For “Terror Twilight” Godrich arranged all the tracks in straight lines - finally someone did it. He gave Malkmus more courage in singing and probably wrested various promises from him: less irony, funny noises in the background and play better guitar solos. Perhaps that is why the work seems like a twin of Malkmus' first, no less great solo album "Stephen Malkmus" from 2001. The boss had finally prevailed here. The five Pavement musicians, who lived in different places in the USA before the "Terror Twilight" recordings, must have guessed that their fifth studio album could be their last, and that they won't get together afterwards. "
"First with Terror Twilight (1999), a layering of" floating vocal melodies over tempo changes á la Ringo Starr , blues jams with the swing of the Groundhogs and classic rock borrowings of the early seventies from Don MacLean to James Gang "('The Hexx') , the shadow of former successes was finally cast off. The group, the majority of which had since moved to New York, had regained its old form. The work, which was partially produced in the Sonic Youth studio, was the successful definition of the position of an aging band that no longer shrank from the fact that they had given independent rock decisive impulses. "Pavement exist as the best rock band of the nineties," summed up the Village Voice . But the end of the nineties was also the end of Pavement. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Charts DE Charts UK Charts US
- ↑ a b Clean Pavement Dirt on gaesteliste.de (accessed on April 4, 2018)
- ↑ a b Stephen Malkmus Opens Up About Recording “Overproduced” Terror Twilight With Nigel Godrich on pitchfork.com (accessed April 4, 2018)
- ↑ Pavement - 10 of the best on theguardian.com (accessed April 4, 2018)
- ↑ Stephen Malkmus: My Life in 15 Songs on rollingstone.com (accessed July 17, 2018)
- ↑ Terror Twilight on discogs.com (accessed April 4, 2018)
- ↑ a b Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine on allmusic.com (accessed April 4, 2018)
- ↑ Review by Joe Levy on rollingstone.com (accessed April 4, 2018)
- ↑ a b Review by Sassan Niasseri on rollingstone.de (accessed April 4, 2018)
- ↑ Review by Neil Lieberman on pitchforkmedia.com (archived) (accessed April 4, 2018)
- ↑ Review by Stuart Berman on pitchfork.com (accessed June 2, 2019)
- ↑ Review by RJ Smith, in: Spin 6/1999, p. 133.
- ↑ Review by Michael Schuh on laut.de (accessed April 4, 2018)
- ↑ Musikexpress archive article on musikexpress.de (inactive) (accessed on April 4, 2018)
- ^ Schmidt-Joos, Siegfried / Kampmann, Wolf (eds.): Rock-Lexikon 1, 2nd edition, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag Hamburg 2009, p. 1306.