Guided By Voices - Sweatying the Plague (New CD)

Guided by Voices is now an unlikely candidate for the most perfect rock band of all time, while at the same time being a thoughtful reflection on what a rock band is, a fantasy that becomes a fact.

Sweating The Plague, the band”s 29th album and their third this year, spars playfully with stadium-sized fidelity and uncharacteristically impactful arrangements. Producer Travis Harrison”s counterintuitive approach to Guided by Voices” historically lo-fi sound is that he doesn”t want it to sound homemade, while the grinding tectonic plate guitars of Doug Gillard and Bobby Bare Jr. Anchor the album. Play it loud! Being a fan of Guided by Voices can feel like standing in a ticker-tape parade and reaching out to grab at stray releases as the endless flurry of output from the Needmore Songs publishing house billows around-but here”s twelve compatible nuggets of Pollard content in one handy package, all boxed up and ready to go.

• 1 Downer
• 2 Street Party
• 3 Mother”s Milk Elementary
• 4 Heavy Like the World
• 5 Ego Central High
• 6 The Very Second
• 7 Tiger on Top
• 8 Unfun Glitz
• 9 Your Cricket Is Rather Unique
• 10 Immortals
• 11 My Wrestling Days Are Over
• 12 Sons of the Beard