Stephen Malkmus in general

Newest Review: ... solo project. It was released the following year to more critical praise and modest sales. Personally, I found the album too ... more

... unfocused and not as endearing as any of Pavement's recordings. Hell, he used intros in many of his songs that were just very misplaced. However, he kept his charm, but it was empty/ The album (although recorded the Jigs) had no sense of a band's presence and played somewhat hollow. Regardless, I still enjoyed the album due Stephen's return to freshness following the somewhat tired offering, 'Terror Twighlight' last created with Pavement. The Jicks: Several months ago, I read that he was reco...more

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Stephen Malkmus in general: Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks: Pig Lib (2003) (1339 words)
by - written on 24/04/03 (Very useful, 102 readings)
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Background on Stephen Malkmus: He looks much like THE SKATEBOARDER, Tony Hawk. In other words, he's a tall wiry dork with an infusion of WASP. His personality and manner is much like a suburban mall rat that everyone likes, but no one really understands him. He's a mad slacker genius. In the early 1990's, he helped form Pavement. To the uninitiated, the band is complete slop. They admittedly could not play their instruments well and Stephen not a great technical singer. However, they made original jaded melodies that were jagged due to lifting Sonic Youth's noise elements with quirky and smirk-worthy lyrics. During that ... Read the complete review

Stephen Malkmus - "Stephen Malkmus" (346 words)
by - written on 17/02/01 (Useful, 13 readings)
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To be honest I don't know, nor care, why he split up Pavement - in my eyes they always seemed typical of that harmful indie mentality that in the UK was typical of the Fall and their ilk. The music was fine, I even found my foot tapping along to their last album, but they never had the glamour or sound bites that make a band transcend to the realms of the gods. Those grieving Pavement fans will be happy to not that Stephen's debut solo effort is nothing more than the Pavement sound packaged under another name. As this goes to press a the debut single has not been decided although it could only ever be a 3 horse race between "Phantasies", ... Read the complete review

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