GBV

Stream 'Let's Go Eat the Factory' here: http://www.npr.org/2011/12/18/143507341/first-listen-guided-by-voices-lets-go-eat-the-factory

For sale on iTunes at midnight tonight! Anxious to hear this, but I'm thinking I want to wait for a physical copy. Probably just stick with the stream for now.

Sorely deficient on anthems so far.

thought it sounded good, if not amazing. but that's kinda what i expected.

After one listen, I'm definitely disappointed.

About halfway through this now. It's... dirgey. I got my hopes up after hearing 'The Unsinkable Fats Domino' but this isn't doing it for me at all.

dunno, i'm not disappointed thus far, just not blown away.
i like that mars classroom record from last year better.

Man you guys are bumming me out. I was really looking forward to hearing this tonight.

Except tyler, as usual my man tyler restores my hope. That Mars Classroom record was pretty great, wasn't it?

keeping it so positive. i don't know, those "classic" GBV records (which this new one inevitably has to be compared to) are such weird, magical experiences. unrepeatable, maybe. i'm trying to hear this new one as its own thing.
mars classroom was great, yeah!

I'm going to keep it pos too because I really think Pollard's hit-to-miss ratio was great in 2011. I thought the Boston Spaceships album was really great and the best thing under that name yet.

yeah I dunno. not really feeling this.

i'm trying to hear this new one as its own thing.

I tried that too, like imagining it was just Bob and some dudes I'd never heard of before, and the songs are still just pretty weak. I know one can never really wrap his/her head around a Pollard/GBV release in simply one listen, but there wasn't much here that inspires me to go back a third or fourth time.

The biggest flaw is it lacking a cohesiveness, very unlike the class albums. Sounds like some guys kind of half assing and having fun playing together again but it's not really an album. Last great Tobin/Pollard collaboration was the first Airport 5 album.

a friend said the new one was more vampire on titus than alien lanes, and i think that's otm...

Yeah, that's otm. Unfortunately, VoT (outside of a couple songs) is far from being one of my favorites.

yeah, it's prob my least fave "classic" record [though i love lots of it). but i don't know, it gave me a little perspective...

listened to this once on npr, thought the first half or so was quite good, but dragged after that. don't think i have listened to a gbv album since isolation drills, though.

I'm liking this so far. Fats Domino, Chocolate Boy, and Imperial Racehorsing are early faves. Its more Under The Bushes than Vampire on Titus to my ears.

i can see that, just on first listen some of the rhythmic looseness made me think VoT more than UtB

idk why there is dislike for this album, I have listened to it once so far and it is sweet. there is some talk of cohesiveness; when are gbv cohesive in an album? this one sounds moreso than alien lanes, etc ever did IMO! the first and second "half" have a markedly different vibe.

I am gonna listen to it again now.

I'm listening to this a second time now, it sounds a little bit better but still not very good. Too many of the tunes are just ugly-sounding and/or boring to listen to. I mean I always loved the way Pollard could fit a great vocal melody into a scrappy snippet of a song like 'Volcano Divers' or 'Hey Aardvark' but there's not really any of that going on here. I still think '...Fats Domino' is great, I might just buy the 7" of that.

marc the cohesiveness in gbv albums come from some amazing sequencing, and I wasn't feeling that flow in this one.