| Perfect Sound Forever | |
| Type: | EP |
| Artist: | Pavement |
| Cover: | PavementPerfectSoundForever.jpg |
| Released: | April 15, 1991 |
| Recorded: | December 29, 1989–December 30, 1989 |
| Studio: | Louder Than You Think Studios (Stockton, California) |
| Genre: | Indie rock, lo-fi, noise pop |
| Length: | 11:12 |
| Label: | Drag City |
| Producer: | Gary Young[1] |
| Prev Title: | Demolition Plot J-7 |
| Prev Year: | 1990 |
| Next Title: | Slanted and Enchanted |
| Next Year: | 1992 |
Perfect Sound Forever is the third EP by American indie rock band Pavement, released on April 15, 1991 through Drag City. It was released as a 10" on Chicago's Drag City recording label. Its songs were later made available on the Drag City compilation Westing (by Musket & Sextant).
The EP was recorded over the course of two days at Louder Than You Think Studios in Stockton, California, and was self-produced by Pavement's own Gary Young.
The EP's name came from a line in Sony's 1982 advertising campaign for the first compact discs, which assured potential buyers of the ultimate in both fidelity and longevity.
Village Voice writer Michaelangelo Matos noted Perfect Sound Forever and the band's 1990 EP, Demolition Plot J-7, as "epochal to ... sloppy early-'90s undergrads."[2]
All tracks were written by Stephen Malkmus and Scott Kannberg.