On debut albums, indie bands have free range to express themselves as loud and proud as they please. Slanted & Enchanted is the void and God moving over the face of the deep. It's Malkmus calling out the beginnings of his world and constructing the base forms of life out of ashes. It's grainy, it's up, it's down. He moves in mysterious ways.
Through the fuzz of distortion, glory came into view. The court jesters had gotten guitars and this was their turn to speak. Orchestrated chaos had found its publicizers.
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