{"id":4973,"date":"2012-02-17T21:37:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T04:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=4973"},"modified":"2012-02-17T21:37:57","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T04:37:57","slug":"guided-by-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/02\/guided-by-voices\/","title":{"rendered":"GUIDED BY VOICES"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4974\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/GUIDED-BY-VOICES-M-Review-Dec2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/GUIDED-BY-VOICES-M-Review-Dec2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/GUIDED-BY-VOICES-M-Review-Dec2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>G<\/strong><strong>UIDED BY VOICES<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Let\u2019s Go Eat the Factory<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Guided by Voices]<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>This is Guided by Voices\u2019 16th studio album, but it might as well be their 160th. It\u2019s also their first since 2004, but thanks to comically prolific bandleader Robert Pollard, who spent the interim years releasing solo records and leading various similar-sounding bands, it\u2019s as if they never really went away. The twist here is that <em>Let\u2019s Go<\/em> marks the reunion of the beloved early-\u201990s lineup of Pollard, Tobin Sprout, Mitch Mitchell, Kevin Fennell and Greg Demos. Aside from a handful of modern references\u2014\u201cHow I Met My Mother\u201d suggests Pollard is a sitcom watcher\u2014the disc hinges on GBV\u2019s time-tested blend of frilly-shirt \u201960s psychedelia and blue-collar American alt-rock. Most of these 21 tracks fall into one of three categories: cruddy, chugging rockers; Sprout\u2019s ambitious experiments (\u201cSpiderfighter\u201d); and Pollard\u2019s inscrutable, strangely moving anthems (\u201cDoughnut for a Snowman,\u201d \u201cChocolate Boy\u201d). The sweetest of the last bunch: \u201cThe Unsinkable Fats Domino,\u201d a cockeyed tribute from one rock \u2019n\u2019 roll original to another. \u2013Kenneth Partridge<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUIDED BY VOICES Let\u2019s Go Eat the Factory [Guided by Voices] This is Guided by Voices\u2019 16th studio album, but it might as well be their 160th. It\u2019s also their first since 2004, but thanks to comically prolific bandleader Robert Pollard, who spent the interim years releasing solo records and leading various similar-sounding bands, it\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,3032,3119,3120],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973"}],"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=4973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4975,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973\/revisions\/4975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}