8.1
Avg Score
6
Opinions
#2,219
All Time
3
Tracks
“Let’s take a moment to appreciate the press push behind Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks’ new album Sparkle Hard. The publicists working the band’s seventh album have done a bang-up job: Malkmus has been everywhere in recent weeks, from The New York Times to Stereogum to GQ Magazine, which called him “the Dad of Indie Rock”. (Oh, here’s Paste’s feature story, too.) It’s interesting that this is happen”
“Nearly two decades since the last Pavement record, Stephen Malkmus is in the best form of his career”
“Although the Jicks have now made far more music than Stephen Malkmus’ first band Pavement ever did, it’s difficult to ignore a certain Wings-esque aura that lingers nonetheless: cosily comfortable, confident as only a band comprising four successful 50-somethings can be, and unashamed to quote their younger selves, with each passing album the sense of the Jicks as the ultimate middle-aged alt-rock”
