Groove Denied LP (Color) fg_Catalog Number_A ND008 K " We owe the survival

" We owe the survival of the music to Charles Mingus

Considering the amount of physical and mental energy spent writing it

“We’d start midday and work until quite early in the morning

It begins in pure bedlam

" a singer chosen for his unmistakable voice

Groove Denied LP (Color) fg_Catalog Number_A ND008 K " We owe the survivalWhen Stephen Malkmus first arrived on the scene in the early Nineties, as frontman and prime creative force in Pavement, the area of music with which he was associated couldnt really have been further from the techno rave sounds of the day. Electronic dance music, then as now, was about posthuman precision, inorganic textures, and hyper digital clarity. Whereas the lo fi movement in underground rock championed a messthetic of sloppiness, rough edges,