Stephen Malkmus - Traditional Techniques Lucent Dreaming from the struggles to the

from the struggles to the surprises

Portraying a side of Tudor England rarely seen

The two albums share the same country/folk sound

mixing avant-rap and footwork into her sonic conceptual art

Stephen Malkmus - Traditional Techniques Lucent Dreaming from the struggles to theTraditional Techniques, Malkmus third solo LP without the Jicks (or Pavement), is new phase folk music for new phase folks, with Malkmus as attuned as ever to the rhythms of the ever evolving lingual slipstream. Its packed with handmade arrangements, modern folklore, and 10 songs written and performed in his singular voice. An adventurous new album in an instantly familiar mode, Traditional Techniques creates a serendipitous trilogy with the loose