Addenda to previous post

What I forgot to mention is the one main area where Steve and H.P
differ: the use of horror. Both, of course, had a deep appreciation for
their artistic forebears (HP for Poe, SM for The Fall), but you'll
never be freaked the fuck out by a Pavement/SM album (unless you're
fatally allergic to pastoral mid-tempo melodies), but with Lovecraft,
entire creative epics are centered on the notion that there is some
terrifying shit just beyond the limits of human understanding. That, to
me, is one of Pavement's chief failures: to never look beyond their
genteel aristocratic horizons at some of the more grotesque features of
life on this planet. For them, the ego remains central, and that beyond
my immediate horizons, more or less doesn't exist. And if they did do
that, it was buried under mountains of ear candy.

FYI.