Just in time for the
summertime scandal season…

By Perez Mills

With word of the new Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks album
zipping around the internet faster than a U.S. congressman can lower his zipper
– the Beck-produced Mirror Traffic is
due Aug. 23 on Matador – the band has now unveiled the first track for your
musical edification. It’s a catchy, quintessentially Malkmusian ditty (with a
great guitar solo to boot) called “Senator,” and as Pitchfork kindly pointed
out, the tunes includes the delicate lyrics “what the senator wants is a blowjob.”

We also like “stick it where the sun don’t shine/ as the
world turns.”

Tracklisting:

1 Tigers
2 No One (Is As I Are Be)
3 Senator
4 Brain Gallop
5 Jumblegloss
6 Asking Price
7 Stick Figures in Love
8 Spazz
9 Long Hard Book
10 Share the Red
11 Tune Grief
12 Forever 28
13 All Over Gently
14 Fall Away
15 Gorgeous George