On Guided By Voices’ ‘La La Land’ Robert Pollard’s Voices Are Colliding
Guided By Voices’ latest lineup has helped add another tool to Robert Pollard’s songwriting toolbox on La La Land. It’s a look that they wear well.
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The 25 Best Indie Rock Albums of 2022
In 2022, indie rock was a guitar-led extravaganza with artists drawing from an ever-widening musical well. These are the 25 best indie rock albums of the year.
‘Scalping the Guru’ Highlights Guided By Voices EPs of the 1993-1994 Era
Scalping the Guru‘s 20 songs come from 1993-1994, just as Guided By Voices were about to release their landmark album Bee Thousand.
Guided by Voices Are Subversively Uplifting on ‘Tremblers and Goggles by Rank’
Guided by Voices’ lasting power stems from Robert Pollard’s poetic observations, but on Tremblers and Goggles by Rank, the highlight is the hard-hitting and capricious music.
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The 50 Best Albums of 2022 So Far
The 50 best albums of 2022 offer sublime music as major artists return with new albums and brilliant new sounds bubble up from the underground and worldwide.
Guided By Voices Drop a Late-Career Masterpiece with ‘Crystal Nuns Cathedral’
With Crystal Nuns Cathedral, Guided By Voices deliver a compelling statement and a thrilling testimony to the high artistry of Robert Pollard’s vision.
The 15 Best Indie Rock Albums of 2021
In 2021 indie rock was a guitar-led extravaganza with artists drawing from an ever-widening musical well. These are the 15 best indie rock albums of the year.
Guided by Voices Thrill and Boggle the Mind With ‘It’s Not Them. It Couldn’t Be Them. It Is Them!’
Guided by Voices deliver a stunning, large-hearted collection of power-pop and off-the-wall oddities laced with beautiful strings and horns throughout.
The 100 Best Albums of the 2000s: 100-81
PopMatters' best albums of the 2000s begin with a series of records that span epic metal, ornate indie folk, and a terrifying work of electronic music.
Tobin Sprout Goes Americana on ‘Empty Horses’
During the heyday of Guided By Voices, Tobin Sprout wasn't afraid to be absurd amongst all that fuzz. Sprout's new album, Empty Horses, is not the Tobin Sprout we know.
The Most Memorable Albums of 1999 (Part 3)
Part three of the Most Memorable Albums of 1999 sports the debuts of the White Stripes, Beyoncé, and Christina Aguilera and stellar electronic music from Basement Jaxx, the Chemical Brothers, and µ-Ziq.
Guided By Voices Deliver Their Most Sonorous and Authoritative Album of 2019
Sweating the Plague is Guided by Voices' third album of 2019. It also happens to be their loudest, most conceptually focused, and most enduring record of this year.
