Kicking off their last album, Guided By Voices have pretty much everyone’s highest expectations to live up to. It’s fitting then that it’s one of those perfect, mid-fi Bob Pollard tunes that doesn’t smack you in the face, but slowly, deliberately makes you reach for and raise your lighter. Everything’s intact here: jangly guitars, Who worship, well enunciated lyrics, that slight yet fake British lilt, and a handful of powerchords. If there was a more perfect band for raising your glass to the erasing of bad memories, being awesome for one night only, and power of rock and roll I don’t know them. It doesn’t matter that Bobby and co. made this song about (literally) 3,000 times. It just matters that this at this particular moment GBV proved rock music could be perfected.
Monday, May 14, 2007
E: "Everybody Thinks I'm A Raincloud (When I'm Not Around)"
Kicking off their last album, Guided By Voices have pretty much everyone’s highest expectations to live up to. It’s fitting then that it’s one of those perfect, mid-fi Bob Pollard tunes that doesn’t smack you in the face, but slowly, deliberately makes you reach for and raise your lighter. Everything’s intact here: jangly guitars, Who worship, well enunciated lyrics, that slight yet fake British lilt, and a handful of powerchords. If there was a more perfect band for raising your glass to the erasing of bad memories, being awesome for one night only, and power of rock and roll I don’t know them. It doesn’t matter that Bobby and co. made this song about (literally) 3,000 times. It just matters that this at this particular moment GBV proved rock music could be perfected.
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