It remains a source of regret that the one time I went to see Pavement, on the NME’s Brat Tour back in 1997, I spent most of their set chatting to friends in the bar.

I suspect that’s because drink had been taken, and because I fookishky imagined the company I was in to be more entertaining than the lo-fi scuzzmongers on the stage below.

That’s probably because I was not familiar with their, ahem, oeuvre at the time. More fool me, because on the basis of the live clips assembled in this video, they look and sound as if they would have been fun.

So I was relistening to their 1991 EP called Perfect Sound Forever this week because it’s just been reissued for Record Day to mark its 35th anniversary. And of course it feels shocking to realise that was 35 years ago.

I’m glad I did, because the dissonant skronk and scuzz of those guitars sounds as invigorating today as it surely did then, if only I’d heard it at the time.

I’ve just looked up the setlist of that gig I did/didn’t see, and note that none of the seven songs on that EP – clocking in at under 12 minutes – were featured. So at least I didn’t miss that.

And while minimalism is most definitely their forte on this, with one track coming in at just 28 seconds, this one – Heckler Spray – is a comparatively lengthy 66 seconds of noisy wonderfulness.