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  FIRELP249Long Player  £15.00

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Guided By Voices

Class Clown Spots A Ufo

Prolific lo-fi popsters Guided by Voices have been on a spree of late, having released their Let’s Go Eat the Factory LP and the “Keep It In Motion” single earlier this year, but there’s way more in store for fans from Robert Pollard and co.
GBV return with their second of three albums in 2012, Class Clown Spots a UFO.
Included on the 40-minute affair is the previously released “Keep It in Motion,” the supposedly sombre chamber pop number “They and Them” and the title track, described in the press sheet as “a ridiculously catchy, melodically complex, shot- through-with-melancholia song that serves as a sadder and wiser riposte to XTC’s ‘Making Plans for Nigel’ as performed by the Hollies.” The song was originally written by bandleader Robert Pollard in the ’80s, and has been surfaced in various incarnations over the years.
The band recently announced plans to release their third LP of 2012, Bears for Lunch, which is slated to arrive some time in November.

Tracklist

• 1. He Rises! Our Union Bellboy (3:01)
  2. Blue Babbleships Bay (1:18)
  3. Forever Until It Breaks (3:16)
  4. Class Clown Spots a Ufo (3:17)
  5. Chain to the Moon (1:00)
  6. Hang Up and Try Again (2:15)
  7. Keep It in Motion (2:06)
  8. Tyson’s High School (2:35)
  9. They and Them (1:09)
  10. Fighter Pilot (1:00)
  11. Roll of the Dice, Kick in the Head (0:46)
  12. Billy Wire (2:03)
  13. Worm with 7 Broken Hearts (0:50)
  14. Starfire (1:26)
  15. Jon the Croc (2:32)
  16. Fly Baby (1:42)
  17. All of This Will Go (1:46)
  18. The Opposite Continues (1:37)
  19. Be Impeccable (2:56)
  20. Lost in Spaces (0:51)
  21. No Transmission (2:18)