BRIGHTEN THE CORNERS 08/30/2012 often charged by striking images

often charged by striking images and turns of phrase torn from the headlines or overheard in contemporary speech

the album announced to the rest of the world the arrival of the West Coast punk explosion (which included such other acts as Black Flag

That album was Ronson finding his way

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BRIGHTEN THE CORNERS 08/30/2012 often charged by striking imagesPavement: Stephen Malkmus, Mark Ibold, Spiral Stairs, Bob Nastanovich, Steve West. A surprisingly divisive album when it came out in 1997, BRIGHTEN THE CORNERS was seen as too much of a softball to champions of the bizarro WOWEE ZOWEE, while those left scratching their heads after ZOWEE actually welcomed it. Whereas the latter has seemed more obviously great with each passing year, CORNERS remains what it always was a catchy set of rockers and