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Pavement, GlasgowNo grand gestures, no big fanfare: the manner of Pavement's re-forming has been handled in about as casual a way as was their split. Witty, and ironic, the band embodied some of the perceived slackness of the 1990s, but none of that decade's self-obsession: one imagines big rock and its personal dramas are as mortifying to Pavement now as they were then. Initially the project of guitarist Scott Kannberg, Pavement was quickly taken over by Stephen Malkmus, whose free-associating,...

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