Stephen Malkmus / Jicks Sparkle Hard 1LP w/ DL and 16pg booklet This is a far cry

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Stephen Malkmus / Jicks Sparkle Hard 1LP w/ DL and 16pg booklet This is a far crySparkle 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