Given right this moment’s dicey political local weather, be at liberty to learn no matter you need into Guided By Voices’ newest single and features like, “Don’t query an arrow drawn by an amazing man/We’re standing up betting on an amazing man.” We’re sure the band’s fearless chief wouldn’t have it another manner.
“It’s in regards to the airs, appearances, guarantees and lies sometimes present in world politics,” says Robert Pollard of “The Nice Man,” certainly one of 17 tracks on Guided By Voices’ forty first album, Universe Room, out there February 7 through GBV Inc.
Pollard hasn’t taken a lot as a breath of over the previous decade, releasing 20 GBV albums and backing them up with constant touring. Fittingly, Universe Room covers an unlimited swath of stylistic and sonic floor in lower than 40 minutes. Working once more with producer Travis Harrison, Pollard was seeking to create “a wild experience” that rewards repeat listens. And whereas a lot of the songs characteristic the same old GBV lineup of Doug Gillard, Kevin March, Mark Shue and Bobby Naked Jr., Pollard crafted a number of tracks on his personal. He additionally went out of his method to keep away from repetition, “so that you get numerous sections that occur solely a couple of times.”
We’re proud to premiere Guided By Voices’ “The Nice Man.”
—Hobart Rowland
