{"id":2423,"date":"2011-07-26T09:31:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T16:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2423"},"modified":"2011-07-26T09:31:33","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T16:31:33","slug":"lifeguards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/07\/lifeguards\/","title":{"rendered":"LIFEGUARDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2424\" title=\"lifeguards-M-Review-MarApr2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/lifeguards-M-Review-MarApr2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/lifeguards-M-Review-MarApr2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/lifeguards-M-Review-MarApr2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>L<\/strong><strong>IFEGUARDS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Waving at the Astronauts<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>robertpollard.net<\/p>\n<p>Ohio-born Robert Pollard has released music under various pseudonyms during his long and storied career. But regardless of what it says on the album cover, the music within tends to sound a lot like Guided by Voices, the indie-rock institution he founded in the early \u201980s and masterminded for more than two decades. Lifeguards is a collaboration with onetime GBV guitarist Doug Gillard, who wrote the music for all 10 of these songs\u2014and as fans might expect, the album pairs chunky Who-style guitars with Pollard\u2019s typically elliptical wordplay. <em>Astronauts<\/em> may follow a familiar flight path, but with Pollard at the controls there are more than enough loopty-loops and barrel rolls to recommend the ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIFEGUARDS Waving at the Astronauts robertpollard.net Ohio-born Robert Pollard has released music under various pseudonyms during his long and storied career. But regardless of what it says on the album cover, the music within tends to sound a lot like Guided by Voices, the indie-rock institution he founded in the early \u201980s and masterminded for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[196,10159,1915,1807,260,1916],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2426,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions\/2426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}