Review #265: Wowee Zowee, Pavement

My review of Slanted and Enchanted (#199) was not uniformly positive. I didn’t get it. Pavement wasn’t exactly unpleasant but they weren’t exactly pleasant, either. And I LOVE noise rock. I was disappointed by my reaction, and apprehensive for Wowee Zowee.

So I was pretty surprised when “We Dance” opened the record, a glum acoustic ballad. (Though it…