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.
Label: Matador – OLE-1433-1
 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Clear
 Country: USA & Canada
 Released: 15 Mar 2019
 Genre: Electronic, Rock
 Style: Indie Rock
Tracklist
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 
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