Stephen Malkmus / Jicks Sparkle Hard Christmas / Chanukkah The Happy Animal Internal ID:

The Happy Animal Internal ID: JITRE

Noonday Dream (180 Gram Vinyl) [Import] (2 Lp's) is a Records & LPs from Ben Howard

Fast Forward Through Time (Illusion Four) is a Records & LPs from ANDREW LILES

multi-part epic (an approach the band would later develop even further on 2022’s stunning La Luna release)

Stephen Malkmus / Jicks Sparkle Hard Christmas / Chanukkah The Happy Animal Internal ID:Sparkle 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