March 22 street date. Originally released in 1990, "Same Place The Fly Got Smashed" was Guided By Voices' fourth album in as many years. Roughly a concept album about an alcoholic named Joker Bob who goes on a bender, someone dies, and Bob gets the chair. From the moment the needle drops, the listener is served notice that this isn’t going to be an easy listen, as an argument taped off of a TV cuts to a basement recording of a lone, blaring electric guitar with someone yelling over the top. But for those brave enough to pass the opening hazards, there are wonders within. This particular album has come to be held in higher and higher regard by fans, and they are correct to consider it a top-tier release. This reissue, like the previous ones in this series, is a mostly faithful reproduction of the original pressing of 500 on the band's own Rocket #9 label. And like the others, the virgin RTI vinyl is housed in a thick tip-on jacket, and includes Robert Pollard's original handwritten lyric insert.
March 22 street date. Originally released in 1990, "Same Place The Fly Got Smashed" was Guided By Voices' fourth album in as many years. Roughly a concept album about an alcoholic named Joker Bob who goes on a bender, someone dies, and Bob gets the chair. From the moment the needle drops, the listener is served notice that this isn’t going to be an easy listen, as an argument taped off of a TV cuts to a basement recording of a lone, blaring electric guitar with someone yelling over the top. But for those brave enough to pass the opening hazards, there are wonders within. This particular album has come to be held in higher and higher regard by fans, and they are correct to consider it a top-tier release. This reissue, like the previous ones in this series, is a mostly faithful reproduction of the original pressing of 500 on the band's own Rocket #9 label. And like the others, the virgin RTI vinyl is housed in a thick tip-on jacket, and includes Robert Pollard's original handwritten lyric insert.
June 28 street date. Building on forty years years of GBV history, the majestic and triumphant "Strut Of Kings" is the forty-first album by indie rock royalty Guided By Voices. Largely recorded in Kings County, New York (Brooklyn), the album is perhaps a gesture towards the malevolent "kings" on the world stage. As the "Serene King" waltzes across the battlefield, Emperor Pollard evokes castles, King Kong and strutting roosters, a surreal yet regal journey. The only new Guided By Voices album of 2024 (!) includes some of their hookiest nuggets in recent memory.
June 28 street date. Building on forty years years of GBV history, the majestic and triumphant "Strut Of Kings" is the forty-first album by indie rock royalty Guided By Voices. Largely recorded in Kings County, New York (Brooklyn), the album is perhaps a gesture towards the malevolent "kings" on the world stage. As the "Serene King" waltzes across the battlefield, Emperor Pollard evokes castles, King Kong and strutting roosters, a surreal yet regal journey. The only new Guided By Voices album of 2024 (!) includes some of their hookiest nuggets in recent memory.
August 23 street date. Originally released in 1996 as a limited fan-club pressing for Rockathon, Guided By Voices' "Tonics And Twisted Chasers" has always existed as an anomaly in Robert Pollard's vast discography. In many ways, the album serves as the tail of a creative comet that in just two years included the "classic line-up" trilogy of "Bee Thousand", "Alien Lanes", "Under The Bushes, Under The Stars", and countless singles that crammed endless hooks in their grooves. In the intervening space, "Tonics And Twisted Chasers" has taken on a mythic status. It's arguably Pollard's strangest, gnarliest, most enlightened record and also the fans first chance to see the stitches that bind his galaxy of songs. It's like peering at the caliber inside a watch, responsible for making the whole enterprise tick. This nineteen-song collaboration with guitarist Tobin Sprout could be interpreted as spontaneous sketches, late-night improvisations, ideas that blossomed later in the timeline, but as with anything in Pollard's orbit, its intention is clear when heard as a cohesive whole.
August 23 street date. Originally released in 1996 as a limited fan-club pressing for Rockathon, Guided By Voices' "Tonics And Twisted Chasers" has always existed as an anomaly in Robert Pollard's vast discography. In many ways, the album serves as the tail of a creative comet that in just two years included the "classic line-up" trilogy of "Bee Thousand", "Alien Lanes", "Under The Bushes, Under The Stars", and countless singles that crammed endless hooks in their grooves. In the intervening space, "Tonics And Twisted Chasers" has taken on a mythic status. It's arguably Pollard's strangest, gnarliest, most enlightened record and also the fans first chance to see the stitches that bind his galaxy of songs. It's like peering at the caliber inside a watch, responsible for making the whole enterprise tick. This nineteen-song collaboration with guitarist Tobin Sprout could be interpreted as spontaneous sketches, late-night improvisations, ideas that blossomed later in the timeline, but as with anything in Pollard's orbit, its intention is clear when heard as a cohesive whole.
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