Stephen Malkmus / Jicks Sparkle Hard Hype Sticker w/ FFO and Album Blurb Instead of melodrama

Instead of melodrama

What is undeniable is that Modern Vampires is a lot less obviously showy than the band's previous work

I’m Only a Man A3

” Earle and his current

Equinox A2

Stephen Malkmus / Jicks Sparkle Hard Hype Sticker w/ FFO and Album Blurb Instead of melodramaSparkle Hard comes into focus slowly and stately, coalescing around crawling piano chords that soon get blown to bits by guitars thereby offering a neat encapsulation of how this, the seventh album Stephen Malkmus has made since disbanding Pavement in 1999, walks a fine line between the familiar and the unexpected. Upon the first spin, Sparkle Hard seems to veer all over the place, bouncing from the finely etched pop of "Future Suite" to the Teutonic