Guided By Voices New LP Warp And Woof, 24-Song LP out 4/26 on GBV Inc. Records. Stream of “Angelic Weirdness” available. May and June tour dates announced.
After a fifteen year hiatus, the “classic line up” of Guided By Voices finished off its year-long reunion tour by recording ‘Let’s Go Eat The Factory’.
A true retrospective woulda been more fun and historical, mebbe charting the path from Cosley’s departure from Homestead to the tux he wears to the Grammies.
The crime of “Teenage FBI,” and others on Do the Collapse, is taking a potentially good small idea and blowing it up into a textured, multi-tracked spectacle.
I recently saw Saccharine Trust. It didn’t matter that Brewer’s gut is as prominent as the madness in his eyes or that Baiza is shrinking, they sounded great.