Guided By Voices is now an unlikely candidate for the most perfect rock band of all time, while at the same time being a thoughtful reflection on what a rock band is, a fantasy that becomes a fact.Sweating The Plague, the bands twenty-ninth album and their third of 2019, spars playfully with stadium-sized fidelity and uncharacteristically impactful arrangements. Producer Travis Harrisons counterintuitive approach to GBVs historically lo-fi sound is that he doesnt 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 heres 12 more compatible nuggets of Robert Pollard content in one handy package, all boxed up and ready to go.
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