Old music: Stephen Malkmus – Jenny and the Ess-Dog

He mocks and caricatures, but there's real tenderness at the heart of Stephen Malkmus's slacker romance It might be indie heresy to admit it but for all the perennial fuss made about Pavement I actually prefer the debut solo offering by the band's former frontman, Stephen Malkmus. The eponymous album's charms are summed up, for me, by this song, which manages to be, all at once, deliciously tuneful, utterly absurd and yet oddly touching.In just under three minutes of jangling, descending chords,...

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