
Robert pollard is a lyrical master; not a word out of place, every line bristling with surprise, telling a story that's both irresistible and impossible. Invention and imagination remain the undiminished life-forces of a Guided by Voices record and this one absolutely crackles with this energy: this band is on fire.
After 20+ years, 2000+ songs, 100+ albums, pollard still can't really explain or doesn't want to explain his secret: "The songs just come to me. In 2017, the new gbv line-up veterans doug gillard and kevin march and newcomers Mark Shue and Bobby Bare Jr blew audiences away and toured behind the ambitious and sprawling multi-vocalist double album August By Cake, followed just months later by the concise punchy and catchy How Do You Spell Heaven.
. Pollard has acknowledged that this line-up's adroit talents pushes him to more daring and dizzying heights. In 2018, guided by voices release precisely one new album, Space Gun. There's humor and whimsical childlike musings, heavy duty propulsion, cinematic grace and elegance, dark futuristic undercurrents, twists and turns and kinetic magic.
And now, the fullest realization yet of Pollard's song talents, here it comes: Space Gun, with the band firing on all cylinders.
How Do You Spell Heaven

One could argue that gbv is never not on a roll, that robert pollard's output plows past the word "prolific" like prolific is standing still in a snowbank; and that's true, Bobby Bare Jr, but this new version of the band Doug Gillard, Mark Shue, Kevin March has given Pollard new tools to complement his song-hammer.
2017 release from the uber-prolific Robert Pollard and his main day job, Guided By Voices. Hot on the heels of the smothered-in-plaudits double album August By Cake comes this hot and heavy fifteen-tune long player, a melody-dense thwack to the earholes that will both energize and deplete your body of it's remaining music-appreciation enzymes.
There's more, much more-the easiest, laziest way to sum up this latest album is the most obvious: How do you spell heaven? Shout it from the rafters: G-B-V! Thus, ergo, quod erat demonstrandum: roll. Guided by Voices is on a roll.
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Robert pollard has had an amazing and seemingly endless career in rock music, but he's also established himself as a consummate artist who works on his own terms. Until now. Author matthew cutter is a longtime friend of Pollard and, he's set out to tell the whole, with Pollard's blessing, true story of Guided By Voices.
Now fans can at long last learn the full story behind one of America's greatest living songwriters. Pollard was a longtime grade school teacher who toiled endlessly on his music, finding success only after adopting a do-it-yourself approach, relying on lo-fi home recordings for much of his and his band's career.
But his story has never been faithfully told in its entirety. The authorized biography of robert pollard, indie rock icon and founder of the music group Guided By VoicesRobert Pollard has been a staple of the indie rock scene since the early '80s, along with his band Guided By Voices.
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They did not rehearse together beforehand; they turned on the recorder and let things coalesce. You don’t need me, or Yo La Tengo, to tell you that. You’d never guess this, since the layers are joined with such a liquid brush. You’d imagine most of the songs had sprung forth whole, since they will enter your head that way.
Stephen malkmus & The Jicks- Sparkle Hard. Ira kaplan, in their rehearsal studio, and James McNew did it all themselves, Georgia Hubley, with no engineer and no complicated equipment John McEntire later assisted in mixing. These are dark times, in our heads as much as in the streets. There are shimmery hazes, spectral rumbles, a flash of backward masking.
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