Sparkle Hard

Description

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks new album Sparkle Hard is released via Domino Records. Its light n breezy, head-down heavy, audacious, melancholic and reflective, goodtime and bodacious and it pulls off the smartest trick: its both unmistakeably 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.