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Stephen Malkmus has announced he'll be releasing a new Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks album. It's called Sparkle Hard and it'll be released on May 18th via Domino Records.

In February, the band shared its twangy single ‘Middle America,’ the first new music to surface from the group since 2014. Today's announcement comes with another new track, ‘Shiggy,’ which is available to stream now.

Malkmus & The Jicks have been recording and performing together for 17 years and in that time they have delivered six albums to much critical acclaim.

Malkmus started writing Sparkle Hard in 2015. He’d upgraded his home-recording equipment, bought some electronic drums and had been working on the Netflix series Flaked (he penned the incidental music and the end theme song). Taking time out to work on a soundtrack project made him reassess how he writes with The Jicks and on Sparkle Hard he said he wanted to focus the music in a slightly new direction. Demos were done in one day in April of 2017. In May 2017, The Jicks started recording at a new studio in Portland called Halfling, which is managed by multi-instrumentalist Chris Funk of The Decemberists, who produced the album.

Malkmus told Elizabeth Alker more

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