Stephen Malkmus & The JicksBest Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks Albums Ranked
7.9
Avg Score
11
Opinions
6
Albums
6
Reviewers
Summary from 11 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks's catalog across 6 albums from 11 opinions, with an overall average of 7.9/10. The top-rated Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks album is Sparkle Hard (2018) with a 8.1/10 average from 6 ratings, followed by Wig Out at Jagbags and Pig Lib. The discography on Wavelength spans 2003 to 2018.
Sparkle Hard
“Let’s take a moment to appreciate the press push behind Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks’ new album Sparkle Hard. The publicists working the band’s seventh album have done a bang-up job: Malkmus has been everywhere in recent weeks, from The New York Times to Stereogum to GQ Magazine, which called him “the Dad of Indie Rock”. (Oh, here’s Paste’s feature story, too.) It’s interesting that this is happen”
Sparkle Hard
“Nearly two decades since the last Pavement record, Stephen Malkmus is in the best form of his career”
Wig Out at Jagbags
“Stephen Malkmus is one of the last Nineties indie-rock titans who has kept making his own eccentric music, on his own merry terms. Though written while Malkmus was living in Berlin, the excellently titled Wig Out at Jagbags – his sixth album with the Jicks – shows his heart's still in his native California, as he whips up song structures that give him room to indulge his taste for hazy, cosmic jiv”
Real Emotional Trash
“Some bands make their journey to the Fountain of Rockness to take a sip or two; others merely to gargle. But the Hard Quartet dip their four sets of lips into those waters and drink deep. They gather together for an indie-rock supergroup of kindred spirits, resulting in a shaggily delightful album of casual guitar kicks. In this corner: Stephen Malkmus, from Pavement and the Jicks. In that one: Ma”
Sparkle Hard
“Although the Jicks have now made far more music than Stephen Malkmus’ first band Pavement ever did, it’s difficult to ignore a certain Wings-esque aura that lingers nonetheless: cosily comfortable, confident as only a band comprising four successful 50-somethings can be, and unashamed to quote their younger selves, with each passing album the sense of the Jicks as the ultimate middle-aged alt-rock”
Mirror Traffic
“He doesn’t look a day over 37, but Stephen Malkmus is the grand old man of indie rock. With Pavement in the Nineties, he gave underground noise a shot of romance and style, setting the banquet table for Vampire Weekend and Arcade Fire, and Pavement’s 2010 reunion tour soaked up a tidal wave of love. […]”
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