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 (unt...(展开全部) 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.
It’s light ’n’ breezy, head-down heavy, audacious, melancholic and reflective, goodtime and bodacious, and it pulls off the smartest trick: it’s 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. If 2014’s Wig Out At Jag Bags balanced the lengthy prog workouts of Pig Lib with Mirror Traffic’s sparky pop moments, then Sparkle Hard bears less obvious direct relation to what’s come before. It also has turbocharged energy and enthusiasm by the truckload.
0 有用 PennyFull 2020-11-17 09:49:10
Middle america真的是神曲
0 有用 蓝色雨 2018-06-07 13:50:21
Boy I'm high as a kite....终于又经历了一次frisson 摆脱numbness
0 有用 kulilin 2018-05-21 15:56:55
回勇
0 有用 ConGei 2018-07-27 20:53:14
B-
0 有用 乔治洗衣机 2018-05-18 19:41:01
solid silk / shiggy
0 有用 三岛行吧 2021-06-06 12:07:58
future suite / rattler的鼓太狂了
0 有用 夏夏夏 2020-02-16 14:33:55
第五首非常好听!
0 有用 Elodie Eye 2021-02-10 00:01:29
怎么会这么温柔啊😢好喜欢middle america
0 有用 玫瑰岸 2019-10-19 14:12:34
好听
0 有用 飞逝的狮子 2021-03-29 14:30:18
4.2 cut:Shiggy