{"id":7037,"date":"2012-08-02T03:14:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T10:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=7037"},"modified":"2012-08-02T03:14:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T10:14:22","slug":"guided-by-voices-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/08\/guided-by-voices-2\/","title":{"rendered":"GUIDED BY VOICES"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7038\" title=\"GUIDED-BY-VOICES-M-Review-June2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/GUIDED-BY-VOICES-M-Review-June2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/GUIDED-BY-VOICES-M-Review-June2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/GUIDED-BY-VOICES-M-Review-June2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>G<\/strong><strong>UIDED BY VOICES<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Class Clown Spots a UFO<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Guided by Voices Inc.]<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019d think Robert Pollard had something to prove. Although the singer and songwriter kept plenty busy on his own during (and after) Guided by Voices\u2019 2004-2010 hiatus, he seems to have barely dipped into his always-towering stockpile of songs. The band\u2019s latest is the second of three albums planned for release this year, and it\u2019s trademark GBV: 21 songs in 39 minutes, from fragmentary sketches to fully formed lo-fi pop gems. The title track is one of the latter, crackling with bright guitars and Pollard\u2019s faux-British accent, while \u201cThey and Them\u201d floats briefly past on acoustic guitar and surprisingly tight vocal harmonies. There are plenty of ramshackle moments as well\u2014\u201cWorm W\/ 7 Broken Hearts\u201d is a 50-second burst of Eastern-flavored guitar, shouted vocals and tape hiss\u2014but it all harks back to the wobbly charm Guided by Voices established on seminal early \u201990s albums like\u00a0<em>Propeller<\/em> and<em> Bee Thousand<\/em>. \u2013Eric R. Danton<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUIDED BY VOICES Class Clown Spots a UFO [Guided by Voices Inc.] You\u2019d think Robert Pollard had something to prove. Although the singer and songwriter kept plenty busy on his own during (and after) Guided by Voices\u2019 2004-2010 hiatus, he seems to have barely dipped into his always-towering stockpile of songs. The band\u2019s latest is [&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":[196,4471,3119,4472,4300,258],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7037"}],"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=7037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7040,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7037\/revisions\/7040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}