Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks announce new album Wig Out at Jagbags, unveil track “Lariat”

Following a live homage to Lou Reed, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks have now confirmed details of their previously-rumoured new album.

Wig Out at Jagbags will drop 6 January (UK) / 7 January (North America), following on from 2011′s Mirror Traffic. It’s their sixth album, meaning that the group surpass the number that their frontman’s former band Pavement ever released.

Listen to new track “Lariat” below, along with the LP’s tracklisting.

1 Planetary Motion
2 The Janitor Revealed
3 Lariat
4 Houston Hades
5 Shibboleth
6 J Smoov
7 Rumble at the Rainbo
8 Chartjunk
9 Independence Street
10 Scattegories
11 Cinnamon and Lesbians
12 Surreal Teenagers