Stephen Malkmus releases his fifth album (not including those he did as frontman of Pavement, obviously!) on August 22 on Domino.

Called Mirror Traffic, and backed once again by The Jicks, the album has been produced by Beck Hansen, who also produced Thurston Moore’s excellent album Demolished Thoughts earlier this year.

The tracklisting is as follows:

Tigers
No One (Is As I Are Be)
Senator
Brain Gallop
Jumblegloss
Asking Price
Stick Figures In Love
Spazz
Long Hard Book
Share The Red
Tune Grief
Forever 28
All Over Gently
Fall Away
Gorgeous George

Domino have made two tracks available to download for free, and this suggests that the album is going to be pretty good. Strange to think it’s now nearly twenty years since Pavement’s debut Slanted and Enchanted.

Stephen Malkmus -‘Tigers.’ mp3

Stephen Malkmus -‘Senator.’ mp3

Despite the fact that these were available as free downloads, these have apparaently been copyright violations?!?!?!WTF!

And as a bonus from his first album (now ten years old!) this is ‘Jenny and the Ess Dog.’

Stephen Malkmus -‘Jenny and the Ess Dog.’ mp3