Stephen Malkmus is set to release his latest album with with the Jicks , ' Mirror Traffic ', later this month. The Pavement frontman will release his new album on August 22nd via Domino Records. Produced by Beck , the forthcoming album is the follow-up to 2008′s ' Real Emotional Trash '. Fans eager to listen to the new album can stream the entire thing over at NPR . Listen to the album in full here .
Real Emotional Trash (2008) counts as a misstep in the Malkmus/Jicks album progression. Though the band ably adopts jam-rock as sonic template (aided in particular by the addition of Janet Weiss) most of the songs suffer from excess. The title track, "Real Emotional Trash," is ten minutes long and could've easily been five and still retained some of the jammy digressions as well as the song's album-best lyrics. Similarly, though tracks like "Elmo Delmo," "Baltimore," and "Hopscotch Willie" possess thrilling passages (either the band letting loose or Malkmus selling the hell out of his cracked lyrics), the songs never sustain [...]
Nifty (Yes, "nifty." Shuttup.) little video from last year's Real Emotional Trash . Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks Matador Records
Earlier today, the staff at Radio Exile and I unveiled the first part of our Top Albums of 2008 post with Albums 15 Through 11 [link]. Tonight, we unveil the next five rad albums on the list in...
I've been wrestling with the whole year-end list thing since I saw them popping up in November. Some makes lists of 50. Others try 33. Twenty-five is always a good number. So is 20. I've decided to go with 10 (plus a few honorable mentions). And I'm pretty sure it isn't going to resemble yours. Or his. Or hers. Or theirs. That's probably a good thing. Click on the cover to buy the album. And let the civil discourse begin ... 10. Yes No Yes No Yes No [...]
A microKorg synthesizer sat atop the dual stand of Jicks keyboardist/guitarist Mike Clark. On the Pageant's floor area, aged hipsters and curious teenagers adorned in thrift store garb stood with arms crossed or hands in pockets and bobbed their heads. In front of me, a husky twentysomething wore a Zeppelin shirt with a plaid flannel tied around his waist Bill-and-Ted -style . On stage, an Orange-brand vintage amplifier projected riffs from a used-bin ivory Fender Jazzmaster, which slacker guitar pioneer Stephen Malkmus was playfully strumming. The [...]
Pocas canciones de Stephen Malkmus me entusiasman, pese a que Pavement me parece una gran banda. El intento de combinar brillantes melodías pop con una faceta experimental no le sale demasiado bien con The Jicks. Sin embargo, en esta ocasion deja de lado su lado más atrevido para darnos una sencilla canción sin complicaciones, perteneciente a su Real Emotional Trash . Y funciona. Enlace: STEPHEN MALKMUS UNLEASHES NEW VIDEO Comparte esta anotación
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