Today, we celebrate 30 years of Pavement’s debut full-length, Slanted & Enchanted, which was first released on this day in 1992 via Matador Records. It remains a truly monumental album – one that defined/ruined a generation and a genre, depending on who you ask.

This isn’t our first pass at the ‘Slanted and Enchanted’-anniversary-game and we’ve put decades of hard-earned know-how into making this one pop.

To start: On August 12, Pavement will release a limited-edition run of the Slanted & Enchanted on red/white/black splatter vinyl. We’ve also pressed up a lovingly detailed replica of the cassette Pavement used to shop Slanted & Enchanted to prospective record labels, titled Courting Shutdown Offers. This is an early version of the finished album with a different running order and a handful of alternate track titles.

Slanted & Enchanted Tracklisting
Summer Babe
Trigger Cut/Wounded-Kite At :17
No Life Singed Her
In The Mouth A Desert
Conduit For Sale!
Zürich Is Stained
Chesley's Little Wrists
Loretta's Scars
Here
Two States
Perfume-V
Fame Throwa
Jackals, False Grails: The Lonesome Era
Our Singer

Courting Shutdown Offers Tracklisting
Chesley's Little Wrists
Jackals, False Grails: The Lonesome Era
No Life Singed Her
Two States
Trigger Cut
Fame Throwa
Pain Smiles
The Wounded Kite
Summer Babe
Perfume-V
My First Mine
Baptist Blacktick
Loretta's Scars
Pillowjack
Here