Guided By Voices
Let's Go Eat The Factory
Clanging guitar chords stride across a roistering piano, and Robert Pollard adopts his steeliest voice to declare: "I challenge you to rock." Rise to his challenge and you'll be rewarded: Guided by Voices' return to the fray, eight years after their "final" album and 15 years after this classic lineup disbanded, is exhilarating, a kaleidoscopic burst of ideas and passion and absurdity. Songs tumble into each other, many lasting just a minute or two, yet each one distinct and compelling. Pollard has a gift for lollipop-sweet melody (Doughnut for a Snowman, Chocolate Boy) and lyrics both incisive ("They say you need to hurt/ to go rolling home") and bonkers ("Was mortified/ unfortified/ fixed my eyes on beautiful pies") but never overworks either, shifting from spiky garage to understated romance to queasy Beatles spinoffs as though dancing on hot coals. Add the surreal collages of Tobin Sprout, and this album ought to be a mess. But the band's fleetness keeps it taut, makes it grip. Maddy Costa - Gaurdian.co.uk
Tracklist
01 – Laundry and Lasers
02 – The Head
03 – Doughnut for a Snowman
04 – Spiderfighter
05 – Hang Mr. Kite
06 – God Loves Us
07 – The Unsinkable Fats Domino
08 – Who Invented the Sun
09 – The Big Hat and Toy Show
10 – Imperial Racehorsing
11 – How I Met My Mother
12 – Waves
13 – My Europa
14 – Chocolate Boy
15 – The Things That Never Need
16 – Either Nelson
17 – Cyclone Utilities (Remember Your Birthday)
18 – Old Bones
19 – Go Rolling Home
20 – The Room Taking Shape
21 – We Won’t Apologize for the Human Race
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