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Sparkle Hard is the new album from Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks. Available from Matador Records, it is their first album in over four years, following Wig Out At Jagbags. Produced by Chris Funk the album was prefaced by “Middle America,” with Malkmus’ wry wordplay and sunny wang create an ode to underdogs everywhere, with bittersweet words of encouragement for the ramshackle character on their receiving end.
Only SM & the Jicks can craft this kind of brightly low-key anthem, a perfect three-minute-thirty-second country-speckled gem about life’s questions big (the inevitable passage of time; aging) and small (getting shitfaced; blushing the colour of Robitussin).