Guided By Voices have already released two albums this year, their February double album Zeppelin Over China and April’s 24-track follow-up Warp and Woof.
Sweating the Plague, the band’s 29th album, spars playfully with stadium-sized fidelity and un- characteristically impactful arrangements. Producer Travis Harrison’s counterintuitive approach to Guided By Voices’ historically lo-fi sound is that he doesn’t want it to sound homemade, while the grinding tectonic plate guitars of Doug Gillard and Bobby Bare Jr. anchor the album.
Being a fan of Guided By Voices can feel like standing in a ticker-tape parade and reaching out to grab at stray releases as the endless flurry of output from the Needmore Songs…
…publishing house billows around—but here’s twelve compatible nuggets of Pollard content in one handy package, all boxed up and ready to go.
01. Downer
02. Street Party
03. Mother’s Milk Elementary
04. Heavy Like the World
05. Ego Central High
06. The Very Second
07. Tiger on Top
08. Unfun Glitz
09. Your Cricket Is Rather Unique
10. Immortals
11. My Wrestling Days Are Over
12. Sons of the Beard