When Stephen Malkmus made the rounds and talked to journalists about his 2018 album with the Jicks called Sparkle Hard, he routinely made reference to a solo, keyboard-centric album that he had in the can. In fact, he revealed in a 2018 Washington Post interview that he had submitted this album to his label MatadorContinue reading “Stephen Malkmus Series: “Forget Your Place””
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Stephen Malkmus Series: “Real Emotional Trash”
As Stephen Malkmus moved further away from his Pavement tenure and put out more solo albums, a pattern began to emerge. Each record was a response to the previous one. Whereas Stephen Malkmus was a platform for him as a songwriter and indie music figurehead, Pig Lib was a full-on rock and roll band albumContinue reading “Stephen Malkmus Series: “Real Emotional Trash””
Stephen Malkmus Series: “Freeze the Saints”
Stephen Malkmus is one of our great melodists and balladeers. There are so many other aspects to his music to that compete with this simple statement, whether it’s the obvious influence of The Fall on his early songwriting, the Zeitgeist-y “reflection of a generation” labels forced on Pavement’s music, or Malkmus’s gradual acceptance of hisContinue reading “Stephen Malkmus Series: “Freeze the Saints””
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