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Motivational Jumpsuit

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It speaks in several silvery tongues, and like last year's English Little League takes many routes to the same shimmery, elusive destination: rock greatness. Its twenty songs (in thirty-eight minutes!) range from the shaggy Who Sell Out pop–pourri of “Evangeline Dandelion” to the lurching, rifferific “Planet Score,” breezing briskly through every worthwhile rock and roll style sheet along the way. Pollard and co.'s influences are by now so thoroughly assimilated that Guided By voices referents are mostly to other Guided By Voices songs/eras: “Save The Company” calls to mind GBV's Bee Thousand/Alien Lanes lo-fi glory daze, while “Vote For Dummy” could be from Isolation Drills. For instance. Recent intramural turmoil aside (Guided By Voices has a long history of members qutting/getting fired/posting private correspondence online/waking up in the gutter), the band has never sounded more cohesive; when Tobin Sprout's insanely catchy feather-light confection “Record Level Love” bobs up against the deeply purple spray-paint rock of “I Am Columbus,” which then pinballs into the elastic, sprightly “Difficult Outburst and Breakthrough,” the pacing and variety always seem to make some kind of higher sense, if only as an appeal to the senses. Motivational Jumpsuit is gangly, wordy, heavy, lovely, catchy, rocky, complexly simple, and better than almost any record you'll hear this year. This is the fifth record (in three years) by New Era GBV, and there will be more. This is not counting the eleventy-three solo albums/side projects frontman Robert Pollard has released under his own name and various proxies. The listener may be forgiven a certain degree of bewilderment at the sound feast spread before him, but rest assured, this is the result of hard labor by a restlessly inventive musical mastermind. You can dig in anywhere you like, but you will always come back for more. Like a star to every wandering bark, Guided By Voices is as constant as love. You can't say better than that.

Track Listing:

Disc 1:
  1. Littlest League Possible
  2. Until Next Time
  3. Writer's Bloc (Psycho All the Time)
  4. Child Activist
  5. Planet Score
  6. Jupiter Spin
  7. Save The Company
  8. Go Without Packing
  9. Record Level Love
  10. I Am Columbus
  11. Difficult Outburst and Breakthrough
  12. Calling Up Washington
  13. Zero Elasticity
  14. A Bird With No Name
  15. Shine (Tomahawk Breath)
  16. Vote For Me Dummy
  17. Some Things Are Big and Some Things Are Small
  18. Bulletin Borders
  19. Evangeline Dandelion
  20. Alex and The Omegas
Release date NZ
March 3rd, 2014
Label
Fire
Number of Discs
1
Original Release Year
2014
UPC
809236133724
Product ID
22150216

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