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Stephen Malkmus
Face the Truth (Jewl)
Genres: Alternative Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (11) - Disc #1
1. Pencil Rot
2. It Kills
3. I've Hardly Been
4. Freeze the Saints
5. Loud Cloud Crowd
6. No More Shoes
7. Mama
8. Kindling for the Master
9. Post-Paint Boy
10. Baby C'mon
11. Malediction

CD Details

All Artists: Stephen Malkmus
Title: Face the Truth (Jewl)
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Matador Records
Release Date: 5/24/2005
Genres: Alternative Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock
Styles: Indie & Lo-Fi, Singer-Songwriters
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 744861065029

Synopsis

Album Description

Malkmus's third album since the break up of Pavement is a painstakingly crafted eclection of songs. Interspliced with serious rock history references is some of his most approachable and hummable work ever--and some of his weirdest. "The man has an uncanny ability to transliterate the sounds only record collectors can hear--early Thin Lizzy, for instance--into a passionate ache anyone can love"--Village Voice.

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CD Reviews

Face What Truth?

Arch Llewellyn | 02/01/2006

(3 out of 5 stars)

"From everything I've read about this album, most people agree it's Malkmus's best to date, a major return to form after the psych-pop noodlings of "Stephen Malkmus" and "Pig Lib."

I've tried hard to hear it that way, but must be living in some parallel universe. There are some worthy tunes here, sure, but there were on the last couple records too (I think if you compiled the best songs from all three Jicks releases, you'd have one heck of a classic). This one seems to follow the others in oscillating kind of senselessly between soft pop 30-something musings and proggy excursions into electro-synth weirdness with one foot in Zappa and the other in the Krautrock kosmische music that, in all fairness, Malkmus has championed since Pavement's early days. I don't mind the out-there stuff, and I like some of the pop, but I wouldn't make exaggerated claims for either one. It's fun, it's pleasant, but ... O.K., I'll say it. It just doesn't raise the top off my head and pour radiant sonic goodness inside the way Pavement did even on their bad days.

So much about post-Pavement Malkmus is great. The voice is still there, the genius for arrangement, the inventive, witty guitar quotes that fall just this side of irony. But Face the Truth somehow doesn't manage to be more than the sum of its parts. Maybe the Jicks are too tight, or too reverent in the presence of Stephen or something, but I miss the sloppy grandeur of the old band. Now go ahead and slay me on the votes ... then buy it and make up your own mind.

"

Great Guitar Pop Album

Chas Chandler | No Where | 12/16/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I Really Really Dig this album, i would say i am a moderate Pavement fan, so i picked this album up and was blow away. Best Songs "It Kills" "Freeze The Saints" "No More Shoes" "Mama" "Kindling For The Master" "Baby C'Mon" and "Malediction" It is a super great album, I think it blows away his Pavement work, alot more relized and Poppy. It's amazing!!"