Stephen Malkmus / Jicks Sparkle Hard Christmas / Chanukkah " Kids See Ghosts is

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This release showcases her unique songwriting and emotive vocals

multi-part epic (an approach the band would later develop even further on 2022’s stunning La Luna release)

Stephen Malkmus / Jicks Sparkle Hard Christmas / Chanukkah " Kids See Ghosts isSparkle 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