Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
Album Title: Wig Out at Jagbags
Record Label: Matador Records
Review by John Noyd
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Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Wig Out at Jagbags
Vivid and slippery, the ever-irreverent Malkmus’ infernal journaling and coded motives makes for evasive persuasions doused in literate innocence and Styrofoam ironies. Soldered with cosmic epoxy, foxy pop melts into self-mocking slacker-rock as careening feedback attracts brassy magpie zig-zags for a loopy stupor of musical voodoo; boyishly charming in its splintered whimsy and outlandishly disarming in its expansive banter, vexing subtext and casual genius. A hoovering coolness exhumed from street-wise muses, “Wig,” dishes a hot mess of unmuzzled puzzles with cultural potshots seasoned in sturdy absurdity; a groovy, goofy goulash mashing classic indie appetizers into a strange deranged banquet. Witness the internal combustion that is Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks when they play their only Wisconsin appearance at Madison’s High Noon Saloon on February 19th.
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