Rolling Stone Guided By Voices’ ‘Earth Man Blues’ May Be the Power-Pop Heroes’ Best Album in Decades
The band’s latest squarely hits all the marks that make Guided By Voices great again and again and again
By Tony Nelson
If the videos he’s been uploading to his Hot Freaks subscription service are any indication, Robert Pollard has been spending much of the Covid-19 pandemic listening to his massive record collection in his pajamas. Perhaps consequently, his omnivorous musical taste has never been on more effective display than on Guided by Voices’
Earth Man Blues, which could be the band’s best album since 1995’s
Robert Pollard of Guided By Voices. CREDIT: Matt Cowan/Getty Images.
Indie-rockers Guided By Voices have announced the forthcoming release of ‘Earth Man Blues’, a “collage of rejected songs” from the band’s archives.
Announced by frontman Robert Pollard in
Rolling Stone, the album will comprise previously unreleased songs from the band’s extensive archives of unfinished music and demos.
“I was blown away that I had discarded them,” he told
Rolling Stone. “Anyway, I combined some of them and created new arrangements. Others I just left the way they were.”
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‘Earth Man Blues’ is set for release April 30. To coincide with the announcement, Guided By Voices also released the lead single, ‘Free Agents’. Listen to the track below: