{"id":3620,"date":"2011-10-07T11:37:59","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T18:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=3620"},"modified":"2011-10-07T11:37:59","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T18:37:59","slug":"stephen-malkmus-and-the-jicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/10\/stephen-malkmus-and-the-jicks\/","title":{"rendered":"STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-STEPHEN-MALKMUS-AND-THE-JICKS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3621\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-STEPHEN-MALKMUS-AND-THE-JICKS.jpg\" alt=\"STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-STEPHEN-MALKMUS-AND-THE-JICKS.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-STEPHEN-MALKMUS-AND-THE-JICKS-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>S<\/strong><strong>TEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Mirror Traffic<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Matador]<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re wondering how much of an effect last year\u2019s Pavement reunion had on singer and guitarist Stephen Malkmus\u2019 ongoing solo career, the answer seems to be \u2026 well, some. The Beck-produced <em>Mirror Traffic<\/em> has a vaguely Pavement-ish anarchic feel and playful energy, veering from the punchy stop-start rhythm of the sarcastic political comment \u201cSenator\u201d to the languid \u201cLong Hard Book.\u201d Malkmus gets a little more expansive with the crumbly guitars and gleaming keyboards on \u201cBrain Gallop\u201d (one of the few tunes that stretches past five minutes), while \u201cSpazz\u201d is exactly what it sounds like, thanks to a jumble of knotty guitars and Malkmus\u2019 yelping vocals. His lyrics are typically oblique, but Malkmus always sounds like he\u2019s having fun\u2014never more so than when the songs skirt the edge of chaos. It\u2019s not the new Pavement album hardcore fans had hoped for, but <em>Mirror Traffic<\/em> is more than a mere consolation prize. \u2013Eric R. Danton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS Mirror Traffic [Matador] If you\u2019re wondering how much of an effect last year\u2019s Pavement reunion had on singer and guitarist Stephen Malkmus\u2019 ongoing solo career, the answer seems to be \u2026 well, some. The Beck-produced Mirror Traffic has a vaguely Pavement-ish anarchic feel and playful energy, veering from the punchy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,2482,1068,2487,2486],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3622,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620\/revisions\/3622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}