Stephen Malkmus / Jicks Sparkle Hard Camo Nasty Sweet Mess A2

Sweet Mess A2

Format Detail: LP Flesh pink coloured vinyl and lyric booklet [w/ download card]

Side Track Artist Title 1 1 Gilla Band The Gum 1 2 Gilla Band Eight Fivers 1 3 Gilla Band Backwash 1 4 Gilla Band Gushie 1 5 Gilla Band Bin Liner Fashion 1 6 Gilla Band Capgras 1 7 Gilla Band The Weirds 2 1 Gilla Band I Was Away 2 2 Gilla Band Almost Soon 2 3 Gilla Band Red Polo Neck 2 4 Gilla Band Pratfall 2 5 Gilla Band Post Ryan Genre: Indie & Alternative

The Crawling Hand A5

Over the album’s eleven tracks

Stephen Malkmus / Jicks Sparkle Hard Camo Nasty Sweet Mess A2Sparkle 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