Matador Records
2001
All This Sounds Gas
About This Album
Depending on your partisanship, there's two ways to view Scott Kannenberg's decreasing contributions to Pavement during their final years. It would be easy to say that Stephen Malkmus was holding Spiral Stairs back, refusing to give him more than a couple of songs per record, and then shutting him out entirely from Terror Twilight, yet Malkmus maintains that Kannenberg brought no songs to the Terror sessions, and thereby felt no guilt in leaving him off of that record. In any case, Pavement simply ran out of steam after Terror Twilight, and Malkmus formed the Jicks in 2000 while Kannenberg formed Preston School of Industry. Since both bands released their debuts within six months of each other in 2001 (the Jicks becoming an eponymous release by Stephen Malkmus, since Matador believed he had a marketable name), it's hard not to draw comparisons between the two, especially since they pretty much deliver exactly what you'd expect, but just a little bit different. Where Malkmus delivered a record that sounded exactly like a Pavement record, only looser, funnier, and heartfelt, Preston's debut, All This Sounds Gas, sounds like a bunch of Spiral Stairs songs, only not as loose, funny, or heartfelt.
Track List (try tracks 1,3,5 and 11)

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