Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks: Mirror Traffic – review

(Domino)Stephen Malkmus & the JicksMirror Traffic∂∂∂∂∂(Domino)The fifth album from the Jicks – who have now been going as long as Stephen Malkmus's endlessly feted Pavement did – is a treat, albeit not often terribly surprising, and perhaps a little overlong. That said, lead track and recent single Tigers is an exception on those last two counts: as attention-grabbing opening gambits go, "I caught you streaking in your Birkenstocks" scores high, and the song – a gorgeously peppy...

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