REAL EMOTIONAL TRASH - STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS
Stephen Malkmus has neatly kept all his parts in place on his fourth solo album: the languid lyrical nonsense, the obtuse stories that seem to go nowhere until they do (sometimes), the once-again-lengthy compositions and the ’70s-pop-prog trickery. (OK, that’s new.) They’re all so intact, in fact, that “Real Emotional Trash” feels often calculated […]
