{"id":1656,"date":"2018-04-18T14:30:35","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T13:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2018-04-17T14:08:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T13:08:43","slug":"stephen-malkmus-sparkle-hard-18may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/stephen-malkmus-sparkle-hard-18may\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-sale of the week: Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks \u2013 <em>Sparkle Hard<\/em>, out 18 May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks - Sparkle Hard\" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/offers.php#r180518_StephenMalkmus\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centre aligncenter\" title=\"Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks - Sparkle Hard\" src=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/img\/rls\/offer\/1805\/StephenMalkmus.jpg\" alt=\"Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks - Sparkle Hard\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Sparkle Hard<\/em><\/strong>, the new album from <strong>Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks<\/strong>, is light \u2019n\u2019 breezy, head-down heavy, audacious, melancholic and reflective, good-time and bodacious, and it pulls off the smartest trick: it\u2019s both unmistakeably The Jicks and \u2013 due to the streamlining of their trademark tics and turns, plus the introduction of some unexpected flourishes \u2013 The Jicks refashioned. Where 2014\u2019s <em>Wig Out At Jag Bags<\/em> balanced the lengthy prog workouts of <em>Pig Lib<\/em> with <em>Mirror Traffic<\/em>\u2019s sparky pop moments, <em>Sparkle Hard<\/em> bears less obvious direct relation to what\u2019s come before.<\/p>\n<p>The reality of modern life sits close to the surface on <em>Sparkle Hard<\/em>, cutting to the chase whether it\u2019s a proto-punk grind or a back-porch country duet doing the talking. The album also has turbocharged energy and enthusiasm by the truckload.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re offering <a title=\"Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks - Sparkle Hard\" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/offers.php#r180518_StephenMalkmus\"><em>Sparkle Hard<\/em><\/a> at <strong class=\"darkred\">special pre-sale prices<\/strong>, which won\u2019t be available after release. <a href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/offers.php#r180518_StephenMalkmus\">Click here<\/a> for more details and to order your copy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sparkle Hard, the new album from Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks, is light \u2019n\u2019 breezy, head-down heavy, audacious, melancholic and reflective, good-time and bodacious, and it pulls off the smartest trick: it\u2019s both unmistakeably The Jicks and \u2013 due to the streamlining of their trademark tics and turns, plus the introduction of some unexpected flourishes&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,159],"tags":[36,829,830,194,1145,1144],"class_list":["post-1656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","category-promotions","tag-new-release","tag-pre-sale-of-the-week","tag-pre-sale-offers","tag-special-offer","tag-stephen-malkmus","tag-stephen-malkmus-and-the-jicks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1657,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions\/1657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}