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STEPHEN MALKMUS Moth Club, London, September 18

YOU can understand why Matador baulked when Stephen Malkmus first handed over the tapes of Groove Denied. Instead of the avuncular jangle and quizzical riffage of recent Jicks efforts or his eponymous 2001 solo debut, they were confronted with “Belziger Faceplant”, the sound of a curious middle-aged man lurching unsteadily around a hip Berlin nightclub. Yet when

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