Given at this time’s dicey political local weather, be happy to learn no matter you need into Guided By Voices’ newest single and contours like, “Don’t query an arrow drawn by a fantastic man/We’re standing up betting on a fantastic man.” We’re sure the band’s fearless chief wouldn’t have it another manner.
“It’s in regards to the airs, appearances, guarantees and lies usually present in world politics,” says Robert Pollard of “The Nice Man,” considered one of 17 tracks on Guided By Voices’ forty first album, Universe Room, out there February 7 by way of GBV Inc.
Pollard hasn’t taken a lot as a breath of over the previous decade, releasing 20 GBV albums and backing them up with constant touring. Fittingly, Universe Room covers an unlimited swath of stylistic and sonic floor in lower than 40 minutes. Working once more with producer Travis Harrison, Pollard was trying to create “a wild journey” that rewards repeat listens. And whereas many of the songs characteristic the same old GBV lineup of Doug Gillard, Kevin March, Mark Shue and Bobby Naked Jr., Pollard crafted just a few tracks on his personal. He additionally went out of his approach to keep away from repetition, “so that you get quite a lot of sections that occur solely a couple of times.”
We’re proud to premiere Guided By Voices’ “The Nice Man.”
—Hobart Rowland
