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Stephen Malkmus (far left) and the Jicks.
The new Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks album, Real Emotional Trash, opens with an ominous guitar squall before throwing out this lyrical admission: “Of all my stoned digressions/Some have mutated into the truth.”
The truth has always been an elusive thing when it comes to Malkmus, a singularly obtuse figure who seemingly stumbled into a musical career that’s still kicking nearly 20 years later. If the whole thing is an accident, what an accident it’s been.
As the dude behind ’90s Indie Rock flag-bearers Pavement, Malkmus seemed in a perpetual state of inscrutability
This article appears in Mar 19-25, 2008.
