Музыка и песни Guided By Voices / Guided By Voices на CD

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Motivational Jumpsuit" is the latest, bestest release by reunited indierock (whatever that means) juggernaut (means an unstoppable force) GUIDED BY VOICES. It speaks in several silvery tongues, and like last year's "English Little League" takes many routes to the same shimmery, elusive destination: rock greatness. Its twenty songs (in thirty-eight minutes!) range from the shaggy Who Sell Out pop-pourri of "Evangeline Dandelion" to the lurching, rifferific "Planet Score," breezing briskly through every worthwhile rock und roll style sheet along the way. Pollard and co.'s influences are by now so thoroughly assimilated that GUIDED BY VOICES referents are mostly to other GUIDED BY VOICES songs/eras: "Save The Company" calls to mind GBV's Bee Thousand/Alien Lanes lo-fi glory daze, while "Vote For Dummy" could be from Isolation Drills. For instance. Recent intramural turmoil aside (GUIDED BY VOICES has a long history of members qutting/getting fired/posting private correspondence online/waking up in the gutter), the band has never sounded more cohesive; when Tobin Sprout's insanely catchy feather-light confection "Record Level Love" bobs up against the deeply purple spray-paint rock of "I Am Columbus," which then pinballs into the elastic, sprightly "Difficult Outburst and Breakthrough," the pacing and variety always seem to make some kind of higher sense, if only as an appeal to the senses. "Motivational Jumpsuit" is gangly, wordy, heavy, lovely, catchy, rocky, complexly simple, and better than almost any record you'll hear this year. This is the fifth record (in three years) by New Era GBV, and there will be more. This is not counting the eleventy-three solo albums/side projects frontman Robert Pollard has released under his own name and various proxies. The listener may be forgiven a certain degree of bewilderment at the sound feast spread before him, but rest assured, this is the result of hard labour by a restlessly inventive musical mastermind. You can dig in anywhere you like, but you will always come back for more. Like a star to every wandering bark, GUIDED BY VOICES is as constant as love. You can't say better than that Style: Independent

Artist: Guided By Voices Label: Fire Records

The new GUIDED BY VOICES album is the best thing the band has recorded since the last album by the legendary Dayton, Ohio rockers. That's not meant facetiously: the last thing GUIDED BY VOICES recorded was the rapturously received "Let's Go Eat The Factory", and "Class Clown Spots A UFO" ups the ante raised by that stellar effort, both in terms of recording fidelity (boring!) and songcraft (not boring!). One could argue there's more depth and variety here than on "Alien Lanes", that there are better songs here than on "Bee Thousand", but that's an argument no one's ever going to win, at least definitively. And this album is a win, by any (definitive) definition. "Class Clown Spots A UFO" is classic GBV, starting with the head-body-head combination of "He Rises (Our Union Bellboy)," "Blue Babbleship Bay," and "Forever Until It Breaks" before finishing you off with the title track, a ridiculously catchy, melodically-complex, shot-through-with-melancholia song that serves as a kind of sa CD, Album

Style: Alternative

The final masterpiece by the American Underground heroes. Style: Rock

GUIDED BY VOICES classic '90s line-up releases its first album of new material in 15 years. The cult, low-fi heroes - Robert Pollard, Tobin Sprout, Greg Demos, Mitch Mitchell and Kevin Fennell - returned to the studio to record Let's Go Eat The Factory. I Style: Alternative Rock

Style: Alternative

Style: Alternative

Style: Alternative

This is the reunited Guided By Voices' third album of 2012, in case you had lost count. Right off, from the opening track "King Arthur the Red," with its full-throated riffery, slam-tastic drums, and even some show-offy lead guitar shredding, it's evident that GBV Mach 2 may just now be hitting its stride. The progression is not dissimilar to the one the band made from the classic "Alien Lanes" album to its 1996 high-water mark "Under The Bushes, Under The Stars", both in terms of longer, more fleshed-out songs and let's call it a semi-pro approach to recording fidelity. For all the well-deserved acclaim GBV's first two records this year have garnered, "The Bears For Lunch" is a step up in every sense. This isn't to say there's a whole lotta gloss going on, and certainly the album has its share of more casually considered songs, but from the relentless drum figure that fuels sure-fire-live-staple and obvious single "Hangover Child" ("the best thing [drummer] Kevin [Fennell]'s ever played" sez Pollard) to the chugging, melancholic, melody-mad "White Flag" ("I think you know this time it's real," Bob sings over an almost New Order-ish bass line) to the propulsive, early-R.E.M.-inflected album closer "Everywhere Is Miles From Everywhere," the 19-song 43-ish minutes long Bears delivers a gut-punch as sure and assured as anything the band's ever dished out. And that's without mentioning the stellar contributions of Tobin Sprout ("The Corners Are Glowing" and "Waving At Airplanes" are particular standouts), bouts of unrestrained whimsy like "The Military School Dance Dismissal," featuring what sounds like seven Robert Pollards singing in unison/harmony over a Beatle-esque piano line, the punning workplay of "She Lives In An Airport," or the staggering work of heart-breaking genius "You Can Fly Anything Right." Add to this Pollard's two excellent 2012 solo albums, a raft of festival appearances and some club touring, and you have possibly the most consistently productive output ever in one year from a band and a songwriter already noted for its/his insanely prolific nature. That said, in a year of highlights, "The Bears For Lunch" may well take the most cake CD, Album

English Little League" - the fourth album from the reunited "classic" GUIDED BY VOICES line-up. Deeper and less immediately accessible than last year's "Class Clown Spots a UFO" (for instance), but no less richly striated with layers of musical goo, this CD, Album

Новый студийный альбом одной из популярнейших формаций американского альтернативного рока. Пластинка была спродюсирована Тоддом Тобиасом (Todd Tobias), ранее работавшим над альбомом "Earthquake Glue" (2003). Как сообщил фронтмен группы Роберт Поллард, "Half Smiles Of The Decomposed" станет последним альбомом Guided By Voices.