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Following hot on the heels of 2018’s Sparkle Hard comes Groove Denied, the rejected album Stephen has been telling everyone about.

Groove Denied was written in Berlin and Oregon between Malkmus’ soundtrack to the Netflix series Flaked and Sparkle Hard. It finds Stephen in a playful, exploratory mode – recorded by himself in Oregon; Malkmus plays bass, organ, drum machines, a Roland 2080 and a Memorymoog alongside other instruments interspersed with loops and vocal effects.

His first album as a solo artist since 2001, Groove Denied is a fine companion to Sparkle Hard, echoing the experimentation (Auto-Tune, genre-dabbling) found there.

A1 Belziger Faceplant
A2 A Bit Wilder
A3 Viktor Borgia
A4 Come Get Me
A5 Forget Your Place
B1 Rushing The Acid Frat
B2 Love The Door
B3 Bossviscerate
B4 Ocean Of Revenge
B5 Grown Nothing