CD Import

Sparkle Hard

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks

Item Details

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Catalogue Number
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OLE13282
Number of Discs
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1
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CD
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Digipack,Import

Product Description

2018 release. The fact that Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks have thrived, rather than simply endured, over 17 years and delivered six albums of buzzy, sub-cultural significance, constitutes an impressive legacy. The challenge with album number seven is one that any successful band with integrity faces: how to safeguard that legacy and hold on to their identity without rehashing old ground (unthinkable), and also say something meaningful while (crucially) having fun doing it? With Sparkle Hard, Malkmus, Mike Clark (keyboards), Joanna Bolme (bass) and Jake Morris (drums) do exactly that. Its light n breezy, head-down heavy, audacious, melancholic and reflective, goodtime and bodacious, and it pulls off the smartest trick: its both unmistakably The Jicks and due to the streamlining of their trademark tics and turns, plus the introduction of some unexpected flourishes (Auto-Tune! A fiddle! Guest vocalist Kim Gordon! One seven-minute song with an acoustic folk intro!) The Jicks refashioned. If 2014s Wig Out At Jag Bags balanced the lengthy prog workouts of Pig Lib with Mirror Traffics sparky pop moments, then Sparkle Hard bears less obvious direct relation to whats come before. It also has turbocharged energy and enthusiasm by the truckload.

  • Vinyl

    Sparkle Hard

    ¥4,279 UK Edition Import 18 May 2018

  • CD

    Sparkle Hard

    ¥2,024 Import(Japanese Edition) Import(Japanese Edition) 18 May 2018

Track List   

  • 01. Cast Off
  • 02. Future Suite
  • 03. Solid Silk
  • 04. Bike Lane
  • 05. Middle America
  • 06. Rattler
  • 07. Shiggy
  • 08. Kite
  • 09. Brethren
  • 10. Refute
  • 11. Difficulties/Let Them Eat Vowels

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