Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
plus: Nurses
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
doors at 7pm


"I am not a present to be opened up and parceled out again," our man insists on "Gardenia," track seven on his new album. Ha! That's what you think, pal. From the day nigh two decades ago when the first scratchy sounds of Pavement floated in the ether above Stockton (crown jewel of California's Central Valley, the sprawling breadbasket that neither the North or the South have claimed in California's ongoing "two states" culture war; just providing some historical context that will be useful a few sentences later), the music of Stephen Malkmus has been the gift that keeps on keepin' on.

Did SM not offer the eternal promise of "perfect sound forever"? Was this sly appropriation of a digital age boast for Pavement's low-bandwidth treble-kicks not a prescient example of that "irony" thing everybody talked about in the '90s? Can we then conclude that that by invoking "paralyzed dreams forever" on this album Malkmus foretells some sort of bad moon on the rise?

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