Stephen Malkmus - Groove Denied - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Malkmus breaks out his 12-string acoustic guitar and touches on half a century of folk-rock reference points on his new album. Of course, this is Stephen Malkmus of Pavement and those great records with the Jicks, so this might be rootsy but it's also fresh, unpredictable, infectious and imaginative InchACC Kirtan,Inch InchXian Man,Inch InchThe Greatest Own in Legal History,Inch InchCash UpInch and more tracks made with Matt Sweeney, Spooner Oldham and the Decembrists' Chris Funk. CD or vinyl! Matador.

The EVEN MORE Freewheelin' Jeffrey Lewis was recorded in just four days in Nashville, by Roger Moutenot (long-time producer of Yo La Tengo, and the previous Jeffrey Lewis album Bad Wiring), and features the Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage touring band of Brent Cole on drums, Mem Pahl on bass and Mallory Feuer on violin and keyboard. Jeffrey's style of Inchanti-singingInch continues to reach for the humanity behind the artifice, mirroring the nudity of the album cover. One snowy February day in 1963, Bob Dylan and Suze Rotolo were photographed in New York City for the cover of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan LP, around the corner from Dylan's 4th Street apartment. 60 years later, lifelong 4th St resident Jeffrey Lewis had the idea to try to take the same chilly photo but with no pants on, to prove himself Incheven moreInch freewheelin' than Bob! This plan was foiled by global warming, as New York City winters no longer offer snowy street photo ops, but at least Jeffrey tried. While the album cover might be a native New Yorker's neighbouhood joke, it also serves to throw down the gauntlet to modern song-smiths, as if to point out that nobody in contemporary songwriting can quite fill Jeffrey's shoes (barefoot or not). If you thought 2019's Bad Wiring was an unimprovable high-watermark of the Jeffrey Lewis 20-year discography, prepare to be shook all over again. The range of moods, situations, wordplay and styles here is effortlessly breathtaking, and if you aren't transported on ten different emotional rollercoasters by the ten songs on this album then you might just be a Chat GPT replicant-bot.

Limited vinyl LP pressing of this 2002 album. Part of a collaboration with Jack Rose's estate and Three Lobed Records to restore all of his LPs to print, VHF presents a new vinyl edition of the celebrated guitarist's solo album, newly cut by John Golden Mastering from the original source material. This charts an eclectic, more experimental approach left behind as his technique and compositions became more refined and deliberate on later works. Rose's 2002 solo debut Red Horse, White Mule was a bit of an outlier in the underground gestalt at the time, coming just before the wave of releases from the new generation of Takoma/Fahey-inspired players. Strictly a solo affair, Red Horse balances the epic, side-long raga of InchRed HorseInch against a second side of shorter pieces, including the ragged slide style of InchThe Colonel's Blues.Inch The compositions and performances incorporate the new and the classic with a rough-hewn charm.