Tobin Sprout: Let’s Welcome the Circus People March 3, 2008Look I’m Pink Floyd or something. For his third solo album, Sprout returns to the whole kiddie-themed thing...
Tobin Sprout: Moonflower Plastic January 3, 2008Sprout’s sophomore effort starts in outer space somewhere, with a hum that made me think my headphones had...
Tobin Sprout: Carnival Boy January 3, 2008There’s no mistaking this for anything else but a Guided by Voices solo project. Granted Tobin Sprout just...
Guided by Voices: Half Smiles of the Decomposed August 24, 2005I like it! It’s been a while since I’ve actually tapped my toe and/or bobbed the old head...
Guided by Voices: Earthquake Glue August 20, 2003This is oddly a bit of a return to form of sorts. Again, Pollard dials it back (to...
Guided by Voices: Universal Truths and Cycles June 19, 2003GBV has subtly moved back into a lo-fi groove. Granted, it’s not all tape hiss and broken songs,...
Guided by Voices: Do the Collapse May 22, 2003I must admit that I heard “Teenage FBI” on the radio about a week before this album came...
Guided by Voices: Isolation Drills April 4, 2003That’s a little more like it. After the debacle that was Do the Collapse, Isolation Drills gets back to...
Guided by Voices: Mag Earwhig! February 13, 2003For some reason the first song on this album reminds me of that terrible King Missile song, “Detachable...
Guided by Voices: Under the Bushes Under the Stars December 23, 2002Whoa there. Who is this? Apparently this is Kim Deal of the Pixies’ idea of what GBV should...
Guided by Voices: Alien Lanes September 26, 2002There they go. They’ve taken a baby step towards sounding like professionals. Still sounding homemade, but coming to...
Guided by Voices: Bee Thousand April 28, 2002Ah, here’s the album that Propeller and Vampire on Titus promised to deliver! Granted, the horrible sound quality...
Guided by Voices: Propeller January 15, 2002Sigh. This is going to be a pretty crazy undertaking, going through GBV’s entire discography (or at least...
Guided by Voices: Vampire on Titus February 26, 2001They really dial up the lo-fi on this one. Some of the songs sound as if they were...
