Listen Before You Buy

“Let’s Go Eat The Factory” is an uneven album for sure, but it should please GBV fans with a retro hankering and suggests good things for them in future, especially if the whole band starts having as much fun as the returning Tobin Sprout clearly is.

Robert Pollard, lead singer of Boston Spaceships, has always been a prolific musician. Guided By Voices, his first band, often made albums running to around twenty songs. Since disbanding GBV in 2004, though, Pollard has reached James Brown like levels of output, releasing fourteen solo albums in seven years. In 2007, along with three solo [...]

It is nice to see the elderly keeping themselves busy.  With Robert Pollard’s failure to release an album since last July, I was beginning to worry that the old man was finally slowing.  Instead, it looks like that time was simply spent with a little band you might remember: Guided By Voices.  To prove that [...]