With their reunion in full swing following the release of last year’s Please Be Honest, Guided By Voices have teed up a new double album August By Cake.
A whopping 32 tracks in length, August By Cake stands as both the first double album from Guided By Voices, in addition to the one hundredth studio album that Robert Pollard has released since the band’s 1986 EP Forever Since Breakfast.
What’s more, the record marks a change in the writing process with all five bandmembers making songwriting contributions.
A press release reveals that Pollard has never taken the double-album form lightly, saying that “one reason he’s planned and abandoned several would-be GBV double albums in the past is his high regard for foundational works” such as the Who’s…
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…Quadrophenia, the Beatles’ White Album, Genesis’s The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation, Hüsker Dü’s Zen Arcade and Minutemen’s Double Nickels on the Dime,” all of which he considers to be “defining records” for those respective artists.