Artist: Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks
Album: Mirror Traffic
Bitrate: 242kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Domino Recordings
Genre: Indie
Size: 92.27 megs
PlayTime: 0h 50min 35sec total
Rip Date: 2011-08-20
Store Date: 2011-08-22
Track List:
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01. Tigers 2:24
02. No One Is (As I Are Be) 3:58
03. Senator 4:25
04. Brain Gallop 5:02
05. Jumblegloss 1:13
06. Asking Price 2:41
07. Stick Figures In Love 3:45
08. Spazz 2:38
09. Long Hard Book 2:48
10. Share The Red 5:19
11. Tune Grief 2:19
12. Forever 28 3:35
13. All Over Gently 3:10
14. Fall Away 2:18
15. Gorgeous George 5:00
Release Notes:
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The fifth album from the Jicks û who have now been going as long as Stephen
Malkmus's endlessly feted Pavement did û 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 û a gorgeously peppy, countrified indie-rocker that recalls
Pavement's glory days û is, if anything, over too soon. Mirror Traffic perhaps
dials back the 70s jam-band feel of previous Jicks outings, though there are
still some great old-timey guitar wigouts (Brain Gallop, Spazz), plus some
lovely quieter moments (Asking Price, Share the Red) and a couple more full-pelt
pop triumphs (Stick Figures in Love, Tune Grief). Dropping a couple of songs
would have made it a tighter set, but Malkmus still has a terrific knack for the
old slanting and enchanting.