Pavement launch first recorded music in 25 years forward of latest biopic
Pavement have launched their first new music in over 25 years – and it’s a cowl of Jim Pepper’s ‘Witchitai-To’.
The legendary US indie band haven’t launched any new recorded music since their 1999 EP ‘Main Leagues’, the final launch earlier than their cut up later that 12 months. They did reunite for a comeback tour in 2022, nevertheless, and through these exhibits, they performed ‘Witchitai-To’ frequently.
The brand new launch was captured throughout the rehearsal for a type of exhibits, with the band bringing life to the observe that was first launched as a part of Pepper’s band All the pieces Is All the pieces’s self-titled debut album in 1969.
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Information of the discharge of the observe first surfaced in December when Scott Kanneberg, aka Spiral Stairs, informed the Kreative Kontrol podcast that “there shall be a brand new Pavement tune on the soundtrack” to Pavements, the band’s part-documentary, part-biopic function movie.
Directed by Alex Ross Perry (Her Scent), the film blends reality and fiction, together with scenes depicting the band making ready for a museum exhibit that options up-and-coming bands enjoying Pavement songs. It additionally exhibits Perry casting, writing and directing a jukebox musical primarily based on the band, whereas additionally making an attempt to deliver a Hollywood biopic to life, starring Stranger Issues‘ Joe Keery as frontman Stephen Malkmus and Jason Schwartzman because the band’s supervisor.
NME awarded the movie 4 stars, with Matthew Turner writing: “The behind-the-scenes footage (a few of it scripted, a few of it not) often options Keery making ready for his function as Malkmus, and turning into a bit of obsessed, whether or not it’s completely recreating Nineteen Nineties pictures of the singer (an unique approach of presenting archive materials) or, within the movie’s most clearly mockumentary second, taking {a photograph} of Malkmus’ tongue, in order to work on the accent correctly together with his voice coach.
“In brief, this can be a thrillingly inventive music documentary that serves as a loving tribute to the band and the sense of enjoyable that Perry is having behind the digicam is each palpable and infectious.”
Pavements is ready for a restricted cinematic launch within the UK and shall be made obtainable for streaming by way of MUBI.