Q+A: Mitch Easter on Brighten the Corners

Yesterday, Matador Records released the expanded edition of Brighten the Corners, Pavement’s fourth album. We covered some of the story behind the album for the Reheaters column in the new issue of The FADER. For that piece we talked to Mitch Easter, the producer of the early albums by R.E.M. (among others), who engineered Brighten the Corners at the studio he had in his Athens, Georgia home. Easter gave us a great interview, but due to cursed word count limitations, didn’t make it into the final article. So instead, here it is, on the web!

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