Motivational Jumpsuit, by Guided By Voices

Motivational Jumpsuit

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	1.	Littlest League Possible 01:18
	2.	Until Next Time 01:28
	3.	Writer's Bloc (Psycho All the Time) 02:43
	4.	Child Activist 01:21
	5.	Planet Score 01:41
	6.	Jupiter Spin 02:23
	7.	Save The Company 02:21
	8.	Go Without Packing 01:14
	9.	Record Level Love 01:15
	10.	I Am Columbus 02:54
	11.	Difficult Outburst and Breakthrough 01:42
	12.	Calling Up Washington 01:12
	13.	Zero Elasticity 02:06
	14.	A Bird With No Name 01:23
	15.	Shine (Tomahawk Breath) 03:03
	16.	Vote For Me Dummy 02:21
	17.	Some Things Are Big (And Some Things Are Small) 02:08
	18.	Bulletin Borders 01:23
	19.	Evangeline Dandelion 01:16
	20.	Alex and The Omegas 02:15

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It speaks in several silvery tongues, and like last year's English Little League takes many routes to the same shimmery, elusive destination: rock greatness. Its twenty songs (in thirty-eight minutes!) range from the shaggy Who Sell Out pop-pourri of "Evangeline Dandelion" to the lurching, rifferific "Planet Score," breezing briskly through every worthwhile rock und roll style sheet along the way. Pollard and co.'s influences are by now so thoroughly assimilated that Guided By voices referents are mostly to other Guided By Voices songs/eras: "Save The Company" calls to mind GBV's Bee Thousand/Alien Lanes lo-fi glory daze, while "Vote For Dummy" could be from Isolation Drills. For instance.

Recent intramural turmoil aside (Guided By Voices has a long history of members qutting/getting fired/posting private correspondence online/waking up in the gutter), the band has never sounded more cohesive; when Tobin Sprout's insanely catchy feather-light confection "Record Level Love" bobs up against the deeply purple spray-paint rock of "I Am Columbus," which then pinballs into the elastic, sprightly "Difficult Outburst and Breakthrough," the pacing and variety always seem to make some kind of higher sense, if only as an appeal to the senses. Motivational Jumpsuit is gangly, wordy, heavy, lovely, catchy, rocky, complexly simple, and better than almost any record you'll hear this year.

This is the fifth record (in three years) by New Era GBV, and there will be more. This is not counting the eleventy-three solo albums/side projects frontman Robert Pollard has released under his own name and various proxies. The listener may be forgiven a certain degree of bewilderment at the sound feast spread before him, but rest assured, this is the result of hard labor by a restlessly inventive musical mastermind. You can dig in anywhere you like, but you will always come back for more. Like a star to every wandering bark, Guided By Voices is as constant as love. You can't say better than that.

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released February 17, 2014

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Guided By Voices Dayton, Ohio

Guided by Voices (often abbreviated as GBV) was an American indie rock band originating from Dayton, Ohio. Beginning with the band's formation in 1983 at the Northridge High School, it made frequent personnel changes but always maintained the presence of principal songwriter Robert Pollard. Guided by Voices initially disbanded in 2004. ... more

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