Guided By Voices (the ever-evolving act led by Robert Pollard) recently announced details on their third album of 2023 (and 39th overall), Nowhere To Go But Up (due November 24 via GBV Inc). One of the most fully realized works that GBV has created, the forthcoming LP showcases an expert rock band at the top of their game. It's a sprawling, wild adventure exhibiting GBV in audacious and unafraid form.
Alongside the album announcement, the band shared the record's first single, "For The Home," and today, they return with a second cut entitled "The Race Is On, The King Is Dead." Following their monumental 40th Anniversary Celebration in Dayton earlier this year, GBV is beginning their fifth decade with a bang!
Stay tuned for the full-length Nowhere To Go But Up LP, out November 24 in stores and on streaming platforms. |
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Nowhere To Go But Up - TRACKLISTING
01. The Race Is On, The King Is Dead
02. Puncher's Parade
03. Local Master Airplane
04. How Did He Get Up There
05. Stabbing at Fractions
06. Love Set
07. We're Going The Wrong Way In
08. Jack of Legs
09. For The Home
10. Cruel For Rats
11. Song And Dance
CREDITS
All songs written by Robert Pollard, Needmore Songs (BMI)
Produced by Travis Harrison
GBV is Robert Pollard, Doug Gillard, Bobby Bare Jr., Mark Shue, and Kevin March |
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PRAISE FOR GUIDED BY VOICES"Hooky opening track 'The Race Is on, the King Is Dead' is a rousing and triumphant declaration embellished by bells and strings"
- FLOOD Magazine
“Welshpool Frillies maintains the high standard of GBV since [Pollard] reunited them six years ago.” **** 4 Stars
- MOJO
"A display of undoubted brilliance.”
- Far Out Magazine
"Pollard is still an earworm factory: see 'Why Won’t You Kiss Me,' 'Cruisers’ Cross,' 'Don’t Blow Your Dream Job,' and sure to be chart smash 'Radioactive Pigeons.'"
- Brooklyn Vegan
"Guided by Voices has never had so long a streak of consistently fine albums as they've had since this edition came to be, and Welshpool Frillies shows this band (and their indefatigable leader) aren't about to let us down now." **** 4 Stars
- AllMusic
"Another impressive batch of new songs.” **** 4 Stars
- Shindig! Magazine
"The stakhanovite productivity of Robert Pollard shows few signs of letting up. Long may it continue."
- The Quietus
"John Peel once famously described The Fall as 'always different, always the same,' and this surely applies to GBV; their relentless search for the perfect pop tune now a given, their sense of absurdity and wicked charm making another trip around their sun a joyful, vital adventure."
- Under the Radar
"A collection of 15 tracks, the record is yet another robust offering of the fuzzy indie rock that the band are masters at producing. Touching on psychedelia and punk, with their experimental edge still present, Welshpool Frillies grows on you with every listen."
- Far Out Magazine
"This one is down and dirty, recorded primarily live-to-tape in producer Travis Harrison’s Brooklyn basement. While it’s a little scuzzier, Pollard is still an earworm factory: see 'Why Won’t You Kiss Me,' 'Cruisers’ Cross,' 'Don’t Blow Your Dream Job,' and sure to be chart smash 'Radioactive Pigeons.'"
- Brooklyn Vegan
"Crystal Nuns Cathedral and Tremblers And Goggles By Rank feel like a de facto double album that together culminate GBV’s current golden era. They stand as the best and most accessible music that Pollard has made since GBV’s last stab at 'a tight rock record with no filler,' 2001’s Isolation Drills. I can’t stop playing them."
- UPROXX
"The rules don’t apply to a man whose prodigious songwriting output is as remarkable as any the rock world has seen since The Stones’ Beggars Banquet and Let It Bleed went head to head with The Beatles’ White Album and Abbey Road."
- The AV Club
"Crystal Nuns and Tremblers are much more natural realizations of Pollard's big rock Who's Next dreams. Just listen to opening cut 'Lizard on a Red Brick Wall': the bass is distorted to bulldozer levels, the drums are almost '80s-sized and the guitars roar with the might of 1000 Marshal stacks, while Bob cries 'The lizard is on a reign!' At the right volume this could demolish buildings."
- Brooklyn Vegan
"Earth Man Blues squarely hits all the marks that make Guided By Voices great — again and again and again.Could be the GBV’s best album since 1995’s Alien Lanes."
**** 4 stars
- Rolling Stone
"'Lizard on the Red Brick Wall' doubles down on the sharp post-punk sounds of preceding pre-album cuts and adds elements of heavy-psych to the record’s already-unique flavors among the band’s incredibly dense catalog."
- FLOOD Magazine
"Fist-pumping, Quadrophenia-esque"
- Gothamist
"'Sunshine Girl Hello' has a glowing ’60s guitar lick that animates its darkly intimate lyrics about unrequited love, while album closer 'Child’s Play' elevates the simplicity of its doubled guitar noodling with a buzzing harmony that mirrors the boundless energy of its lyrics."
- Pitchfork |
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