OT Your Favorite or Most Respected Musical Artist

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Au contraire. :-) IMO BTC [note source of name likely the hymn 'brighten the corner' (singular)].
...is one of if not Pavement's best, and my preferred daily driver.
I am off to look up Mitch as we speak... thanks!

Caught the current tour @ the Mann Music center in September. Rapture.

I agree Brighten the Corners is one of their better albums, just not my personal favorite. I missed them this tour--they are phenomenal live--must have been a great show. Mitch Easter has produced a lot of other great bands as well and I'm a fan of his former band "Let's Active".....
Here's a song by a band called The Loud Family that Mitch produced....

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