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La La Land doubles down on the intricate proggy-pop displayed on Guided By Voices’s last album Tremblers And Goggles By Rank On a hot streak of critical acclaim, Robert Pollard continues expanding his songwriting towards extremes of prettiness, heaviness and poeticism As always, unforgettable hooks are everywhere But with this...
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Like a long-lost artifact from some golden age of rock that never existed, ESP Ohio’s debut album grabs the ear-holes and demands immediate and undivided attention Robert Pollard says it’s a band, rather than a collaboration—a distinction which may seem like splitting hairs, but rather than putting melodies and lyrics on top...
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Out of stock235 pages of Robert Pollard's fantastic collage art in a perfect bound book HE NEVER STOPS...
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Robert Pollard's output is still a marvel to behold in the annals of US indie rock As the driving force behind Guided By Voices and a tangled labyrinth of other projects, he's released more music than any one person can surely keep up with That said, such is the power of his songwriting, a one-off single can be as much of a gem...
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Out of stockScalping The Guru is an archival Guided By Voices release, envisioned and sequenced by Robert Pollard as a cohesive album, featuring select tracks from four GBV EPs released in 1993-1994 by Domino, City Slang, Siltbreeze and Engine Records These hard to find records are essential for fans of Vampire On Titus and Bee Thousand, with...
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Tremblers And Goggles By Rank marks a new phase in Robert Pollard’s songwriting evolution His songs have always included non-traditional approaches to form and song structure, but with this album, he has pushed it further than ever While the familiar Guided By Voices pop-craft and melodic virtuosity always occupies center stage,...
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All songs written by Robert Pollard, Needmore Songs (BMI) Produced by Travis Harrison GBV: Robert Pollard, Doug Gillard, Bobby Bare Jr, Mark Shue, Kevin March The mighty Guided by Voices are set to unleash upon the world their 35th and quite possibly…BEST album, Crystal Nuns Cathedral How do they do it you might ask Well...
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Blazing Gentlemen is the last Robert Pollard record That will be released in 2013 It is also the finest Pollard-related record to come out in this or several years, aural evidence of a rock mage reinvigorated by the fact, according to the man himself, that he's "finally figured out how to write a song after 55 years" Which may...
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Honey Locust Honky Tonk is a compact wonder and so varied, tuneful, graceful, magnificent and ebullient that one will be forgiven for thinking that Robert Pollard has saved his best for his own album Slicker in some ways than recent Guided By Voices efforts, though not without its own down-home charm, its 17 songs whiz by in 34...
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Out of stockRobert Pollard returns with his latest single Tonight’s the Rodeo The A-side is a preview from a forthcoming 2014 solo album; “Astral City Slicker” is the full three-minute-plus version of the 51-second “Suit Minus the Middle” from Honey Locust Honky...
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Out of stockA teaser 7-inch to the upcoming new full-length, Faulty Superheroes, due May 26, 2015 Includes the album cuts “Up, Up and Up” and “Take Me to Yolita” Includes a...
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Out of stockTwo new singles from the upcoming third album from Dayton, Ohio-based supergroup RICKED WICKY The quartet, led by ROBERT POLLARD and seconded mostly by multi-instrumentalist NICK MITCHELL, with assists from KEVIN MARCH on drums and TODD TOBIAS on bass, have amped Pollard’s already wildly prolific output to...
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Two new singles from the upcoming third album from Dayton, Ohio-based supergroup RICKED WICKY The quartet, led by ROBERT POLLARD and seconded mostly by multi-instrumentalist NICK MITCHELL, with assists from KEVIN MARCH on drums and TODD TOBIAS on bass, have amped Pollard’s already wildly prolific output to...
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Double-vinyl gatefold reissue of Guided By Voices frontman’s most celebrated solo album, previously released in 2006 on Merge Records  From A Compound Eye was Robert Pollard’s first solo album after dissolving Guided By Voices in 2004 When things came to an end for GBV, Pollard promised that this would not mean the end of his...
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Two 7” singles from KING HEAVY METAL, the forthcoming 2nd album by Ricked Wicky, the new project of Guided By Voices’ mastermind Robert Pollard, joined by GBV’s Kevin March (drums), long-time collaborator Todd Tobias (bass) and secret weapon, Nick Mitchell (guitar)    The A-sides are majestic and hook-filled - classic...
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Out of stockTwo 7” singles from KING HEAVY METAL, the forthcoming 2nd album by Ricked Wicky, the new project of Guided By Voices’ mastermind Robert Pollard, joined by GBV’s Kevin March (drums), long-time collaborator Todd Tobias (bass) and secret weapon, Nick Mitchell (guitar)The A-sides are majestic and hook-filled - classic Pollard...
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King Heavy Metal, the second release from Robert Pollard’s self-described “supergroup” (tongue practically piercing his cheek with self-deprecating irony), is a hitherto undiscovered species of rainforest songbird capable of changing colors in the ultraviolet and infrared spectrums At once prog-struck, collagist, technically...
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Out of stockEat 17Â is a beautiful 237 page, perfect bound book filled with the brilliant collage art of Robert...
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Dayton, Ohio-based supergroup Ricked Wicky pulls off a rarely ventured and even more rarely gained three-peat with its third album—all recorded and released in the span of a year—Swimmer to a Liquid Armchair The quartet, led by Robert Pollard and seconded mostly by multi-instrumentalist Nick Mitchell, with assists from Kevin...
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For the most discerning aficionados of Robert Pollard and Guided By Voices, Teenage Guitar offers experiments in spontaneity and lo-fi witchiness and wizardry, exploring multiple moods and styles This is pure high-potency solo Pollard (vocals, guitars, piano) with occasional assistance from Greg Demos (drums) and Joe Patterson...
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Robert Pollard, head lunatic of the Guided By Voices’ asylum, has a surfeit of original thoughts (Most people are lucky to have even one, ever) That this even needs to be expressed is evidence enough for its “truth,” as only obvious or obviously untrue things can ever hope to be true Or to approach the truth Something...
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It’s been just a few months since Guided By Voice’s faux rock opera Earth Man Blues garnered four-star and five-star reviews, with Rolling Stone proclaiming that it “squarely hits all the marks that make Guided By Voices great—again and again and again” “Again and again and again”, is perhaps GBV’s credo, with...
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Cub Scout Bowling Pins hop in the “Magic Taxi”, turn on the AM radio and time travel forty to forty-five years back in time The project is mysteriously presented, but it’s a thinly-veiled alias of the ridiculously prolific and talented Guided By Voices Minus the usual punk and prog influences, there are strong whiffs of...
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Out of stockEarth Man...
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Styles We Paid For is Guided By Voices’ third album of 2020 and it stands as a testament to this Year In Isolation, reflecting these dark days through Robert Pollard’s prism, with the band sounding as confident and authoritative as ever The fifteen tracks were recorded remotely during quarantine from five states (Ohio, New...
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Out of stockHeaven Beats...