Stephen Malkmus / Jicks Sparkle Hard Hype Sticker w/ FFO and Album Blurb debuted at #2 on the

debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 and was gold-certified in just two months

and filtered vocals proclaim: "Sermon of death says Jupiter is the loneliest planet

yet it's very powerful: Klaudia Schifferle (Kleenex/Liliput) + Madlaina Peer (Noknows) + Sara Schaer (TNT

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What is undeniable is that Modern Vampires is a lot less obviously showy than the band's previous work

Stephen Malkmus / Jicks Sparkle Hard Hype Sticker w/ FFO and Album Blurb debuted at #2 on theSparkle Hard comes into focus slowly and stately, coalescing around crawling piano chords that soon get blown to bits by guitars thereby offering a neat encapsulation of how this, the seventh album Stephen Malkmus has made since disbanding Pavement in 1999, walks a fine line between the familiar and the unexpected. Upon the first spin, Sparkle Hard seems to veer all over the place, bouncing from the finely etched pop of "Future Suite" to the Teutonic