Wig Out at Jagbags
Matador
2014
Rating: 7.5 rural postcards out of 10
As someone who has spent the better part of his life listening to Pavement for hours and hours and hours, frankly it's impossible not to hear a new Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks record and compare the two. Is that fair? Probably not, but when you formerly fronted one of the most important bands in my personal development, that's just the kinda shit that's gonna happen.
Anyways, personal bias aside, this is pretty good record. For whatever reason I've not been paying much attention to this Stephen Malkmus solo stuff outside of his first one "Pig Lib," and perhaps that was a mistake on my part. And bias or no bias it still sounds pretty much like a Pavement record - how could it not with Malkmus writing and singing the songs? "The Janitor Revealed" and "Houston Hades" especially sound like outtakes from the Pavement record "Terror Twilight" or maybe "Brighten the Corners." I'm not complaining, this shit makes me feel young again.
As a side note, if the album title "Wig Out at Jagbags" isn't cribbed directly from something Robert Pollard said, you just know at a minimum it's a phrase he uttered at some point in his life. It's just way too Pollard-y not to have come from his brain, if even telekinetically.
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