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- Summary: The latest release from GBV is a continuation of the band's new, more polished sound introduced on 1999's 'Do The Collapse.'
- Record Label: TVT
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Alternative
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Glad Girls | |
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Hey, glad girls only want to get you high And they're alright There will be no coronation There will be no flowers flowing In the light that passes... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 14 out of 15
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From sparse DIY fragments to string-enhanced ballads and well-wrought pop, the material on Isolation Drills is as diverse as it is consistently compelling.
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MagnetOne of the band's best.... While 1999's Ric Ocasek-produced Do The Collapse was criticized by some for its thick, pop-radio gloss, Isolation Drills shows more restraint, reconciling Pollard's idiosyncrasies with the track-to-track consistency great rock albums demand. [#49, p.75]
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The group has created an album filled not only with the timeless pop hooks you have come to expect but with the anthemic swagger that is the hallmark of many of the great rock recordings of the last 30 years.
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Yes, it's fun rockin' pop. But, unlike a lot of today's pop music, Guided By Voices keep their depth.
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Isolation Drills sounds like the real rock album GBV have always wanted to make...
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Ditching lo-fi aesthetics for a more radio-ready sound in the spirit of, say, the Raspberries or Badfinger, Pollard has wisely chosen not bury his songs in oblique lyrical references and muddy tape hiss.
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BlenderHis Who-tastic riffs remain belligerent and plentiful, but Pollard sounds grimmer, as if the former grade-school teacher suddenly realizes that touring in a van past age 40 isn't as much fun as he expected. [Jun/Jul 2001, p.111]
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DavidJ.Nov 29, 2001GBV rock. That's all I have to say.
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Jan 21, 2021Not only Guided by Voices greatest album, it's one of the best albums ever. Period.
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DJBJan 18, 2005
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May 25, 2011
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Apr 6, 2018
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