Wave to the Camera

NINETIES INDIE ROCKERS Pavement have only one Gold record to their name, and they earned it just last year for B-side-turned-TikTok-hit “Harness Your Hopes,” originally recorded for their 1997 full-length Brighten the Corners but ultimately discarded, instead relegated to its less-than-ideal fate on Spit on a Stranger, one of two EPs released the same year they broke up (for the first time). Chart anonymity be damned, the Stockton, California, band have constructed a legacy rife with their own sonic traits: sad yet funny, byzantine yet simple, prestigious yet unbothered. But Pavement is an unconventional band with an unconventional story. That’s precisely why director Alex Ross Perry’s new movie about the alt-rockers, Pavements, is likewise unorthodox.