Pavement film soundtrack to include band’s first new song in 25 years

nme.com:

Pavement, titled Pavements, will include the group’s first song in 25 years on its soundtrack.The part-documentary, part-biopic film premiered on September 3 at the Venice Film Festival, and stars Joe Keery and Jason Schwartzman.

It will be released via MUBI in the spring.Accompanying the film will be an official soundtrack and that will include the first new Pavement song in 25 years.The band’s Scott Kanneberg (also known as Spiral Stairs), filmmaker Alex Ross Perry and the film’s producer and editor Robert Greene were guests on Vish Khanna‘s Kreative Kontrol podcast this week.

Kanneberg revealed: “There will be a new Pavement song on the soundtrack, that’s all I’m gonna give you.”Perry, the director of the film, added “even I didn’t know that!” – Kanneberg then says, “I just heard a mix of it today, and it’s pretty good.”Kanneberg revealed that the track is not an official studio recording, but just something they experimented with in rehearsals.

He said: “It’s not a big deal. It’s just cool because it’s something different and is a song we all really loved playing.”The full episode of the podcast is available to stream here.