All This Sounds Gas - Preston School Of Industry
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  • Summary: This is the solo debut for founding Pavement guitarist Scott Kannberg (aka "Spiral Stairs"). As Preston School of Industry, Spiral is joined by Andrew Borger on drums and Jon Erickson on bass, with other musicians guesting.
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  1. Positive: 9 out of 13
  2. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. It's so immediately pleasing that the new moves in Stairs' repertoire take a while to sink in. [#32, p.57]
  2. 80
    An album of joyful, desperate and messy songs, as honest and delicious as any on Pavement's 1992 classic, Slanted And Enchanted. [Sep 2001, p.92]
  3. Not only do Kannberg’s vocals sound more robust than previously, but the whole record has considerably more colour in its cheeks than Malkmus’s own recent solo effort.
  4. This is what Pavement would have sounded like if they became the equivalent of Sebadoh, cranking out a version of Slanted & Enchanted each year, turning out records that satisfy listeners that want Pavement without unpredictability, humor, diversity and, yes, mess - without SM Jenkins, that is.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. Mr.Natural
    10
    I love this album, and I don't feel the need to invoke the ghost of Pavement in order to evaluate it. It's got a pretty loose feel, great guitars and goofy vocals. That formula worked pretty well for, say, Camper Van Beethoven... Expand
  2. RobertD.
    10
    All This Sounds Gas is amazing, awesome, cool, great. Spiral is a genius.