File under Pavement. Though Malkmus can now boast that he actually lives in the same city as his bandmates, bassist Joanna Bolme and drummer John Moen, he must admit that this album is akin to Tom Petty without the Heartbreakers. That's not a bad thing. And it wasn't on a Heartbreakers record. Some of Malkmus' best songs appear on Stephen Malkmus.
More serious moments come during the slower, mid-tempo songs.
Time's power still seems to fascinate, and frighten, Malkmus. Take me off the list, I don't want to be missed. Carrion, it's what we all become. Though the terror twilight looms, Malkmus doesn't back down. Divine, divine, divine, divine.