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Pavement has released their first new music in over 25 years – a cover of Jim Pepper’s ‘Witchitai-To’.
The iconic US indie band has not put out any new recorded music since their 1999 EP ‘Major Leagues’, which was the last release before their split later that year. They did come together for a reunion tour in 2022, during which they frequently performed ‘Witchitai-To’.
This new release was recorded during rehearsals for one of those concerts, with the band breathing new life into the track that first appeared on Pepper’s band Everything Is Everything’s debut self-titled album in 1969.
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The announcement of the track’s release surfaced in December when Scott Kanneberg, also known as Spiral Stairs, mentioned on the Kreative Kontrol podcast that “there will be a new Pavement song on the soundtrack” for Pavements, the band’s part-documentary, part-biopic film.
Directed by Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell), the movie intertwines fact and fiction, showcasing scenes of the band preparing for a museum exhibit that features emerging artists performing Pavement songs. It also portrays Perry’s efforts to cast, write, and direct a jukebox musical about the band, while attempting to create a Hollywood biopic starring Stranger Things’ Joe Keery as frontman Stephen Malkmus and Jason Schwartzman as the band’s manager.
NME awarded the film four stars, with Matthew Turner stating: “The behind-the-scenes footage (some scripted, some not) often highlights Keery as he prepares for his role as Malkmus and becomes a bit obsessed, whether it’s perfectly recreating 1990s photographs of the singer (an original way to present archive material) or, in the film’s most obviously mockumentary moment, taking a photo of Malkmus’ tongue to work on the accent with his voice coach.
“In summary, this is a wonderfully creative music documentary that acts as a heartfelt tribute to the band, with Perry’s evident joy behind the camera being both tangible and infectious.”
Pavements is set for a limited theatrical release in the UK and will be available for streaming via MUBI.
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