Robert Pollard’s vast discography, with ninety-three albums in thirty years including twenty five helming Guided By Voices, ought to be intolerable. But Pollard’s long surpassed his Oedipal impulse to outdo The Who on his Ohio basement four track and is now officially an auteur, endlessly and obsessively recombining spontaneously regenerated psychedelic mod-punk-powerpop tropes until sometimes, as on this happy occasion, they fall randomly in predominantly perfect patterns.
GBV’s immortally idiotic savants satiate rock and rollers’ punchy primal impulses and aging thinkers’ cerebral thirsts.
Here’s seventeen smart songs with big dumb riffs and art-damaged interruptions from the ultimate American rock band.
(unpublished)
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