Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks

This week marked the release of Stephen Malkmus' sixth album since leaving Pavement (between solo albums, Jicks albums and pseudo-solo Jicks albums). What makes this particularly interesting is that Malkmus has now released more albums proper post-Pavement than Pavement did. Which is fine, I've really enjoyed his work since then, particularly his embracing of post-Dead guitar jams. It just makes me feel a little bit older, given how important Pavement were to me in the 90s. I've not yet had time to delve too deeply into Wig Out at Jagbags, but early reports sound promising and I was certainly charmed by the video for lead single, "Lariat".

For the record, here's how I would rank the fist five post-Pavement Malkmus records:

Real Emotional Trash (2008)
Pig Lib (2003)
Stephen Malkmus (2001)
Face the Truth (2005)
Mirror Traffic (2011)