The first taste of his excellent upcoming album, Traditional Techniques
is more of a culmination; it’s a folk-rock record, with Malkmus playing acoustic guitar and going all the way in on the fireside, cardigan-sweater-and wool-socks guitar beauty that’s long been a hallmark of his solo albums since leavingThe idea to record a mostly acoustic record came about while Malkmus was working on his last album with the Jicks, 2018’sas a kind of self-dare,” reads a statement accompanying the album announcement.
He’s joined on the album by guitarist Matt Sweeney — a member of the great Nineties indie-rock band Chavez — who has collaborated with Will Oldham’s beloved Bonnie “Prince” Billy and also appeared in Billy Corgan’s early-’00s supergroup Zwan. The first single, “Xian Man,” is a sweet, wintry jam that lands somewhere between the third Velvet Underground album and Fairport Convention’s, with Malkmus banging away elegantly on his acoustic guitar and Sweeney adding cool, droney electric leads.
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