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Jan 17, 2012Let's Go Eat the Factory is hardly a triumph, but it's a step in the right direction for Pollard, as well as confirmation that this group of friendly reprobates still has some good work left in them.
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Jan 4, 2012Spotty, strange, all short songs and shitty sound, it's got the collagist careen of Bee Thousand and Propeller and the tumbling tunecraft of Alien Lanes and Under the Bushes Under the Stars.
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Jan 12, 2012Everything about this album feels "classic", but in the end the material itself is merely solid.
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UncutJan 9, 2012Let's Go eat A factory is not a brilliant album and of itself, but it does cast guided By Voices in a slightly different light. [Feb 2012, p.95]
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MojoJan 31, 2012A cache of hissy, vivid, occasionally creepy but mostly sweetly touching brain pop that stands proudly alongside GBV's ragged former glories. [Feb 2012, p.97]
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Q MagazineJan 10, 2012Their 16th album proves that while Guided by Voices' songs are legion, their gifts remain singular.[Feb. 2012 p. 109]
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Jan 18, 2012It's Guided By Voices' finest work since 2001's 'Isolation Drills'
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Jan 17, 2012Robert Pollard and Tobin Sprout toss off minute-long power-pop goofs that make intermittent blasts of real-rock transcendence... feel all the more striking.
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Jan 17, 2012It shouldn't work at all, but the overall product--while a bit uneven--is something to celebrate.
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Jan 4, 2012Let's Go Eat the Factory unfolds with each successive listen.
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Jan 12, 2012Exhilarating, a kaleidoscopic burst of ideas and passion and absurdity.
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Jan 20, 2012For every full colour oil on canvas there are two doodles that fail to engage this sympathetic listener even after five or six plays.
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Jan 3, 2012Factory finds the band falling into old, glorious habits.
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Jan 3, 2012The 21 songs here are no more or less inscrutable than the hundreds of tunes Pollard has penned since he last played with this band, but they gel in ways that so many of those didn't, reveling in their limitations rather than trying to overcome them. It's the difference between the White Stripes and the Raconteurs.
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Jan 3, 2012Although the album could fall short of hardcore fans' expectations, it's a fairly accessible introduction to the band.
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Jan 3, 2012Factory may not be Guided by Voices at its very best, but it's certainly Guided by Voices at its, well, Guided-by-Voiciest.
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Jan 11, 2012Let's Go Eat the Factory seats shining riffsters alongside hypnotically inscrutable interludes, though much of it sounds more belabored and less beer-soaked than those of yore.
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Mar 9, 2012This is the very best kind of post-reunion album, the one that allows you to rediscover things you'd forgotten about a band you always loved.
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Jan 6, 2012Let's Go Eat the Factory works as an offering to those obsessive enough to be satisfied just to see Sprout and Pollard up on the same stage and little else.
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Jan 12, 2012While it fails to match their previous hit quotient, it's still a decent listen.
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Jan 5, 2012Some come-backs are fraught with danger, both commercial and artistic. This one is entirely justified.
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Jan 9, 2012Just enough titbits of melody... to sustain interest.
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Jan 3, 2012It's just a sludgy, grumpy record from a band who once knew pop music needed whimsy.
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Jan 17, 2012The 16th GBV album is business as usual: plangent garage rock.
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Jan 5, 2012It feels like a resurfacing, like a promise, and it's a grand closer for this classically GBV (collection) album.
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Jan 3, 2012Mr. Sprout's songwriting helps raise the average. Guided by Voices has a reputation to uphold, and much of the time it does.
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Jan 12, 2012Repeated listens to Let's Go Eat the Factory reveal a paucity of the pithy lyric and classic riff on which he's [Pollard] built a deserved reputation.
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Jan 12, 2012Through and through, fans will be happy to see their former drinking buddies up to their old antics.
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Jan 10, 2012[A] lovable shamble of a rock record.
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Jan 10, 2012As a whole, the album's sound suggests that of a band on auto-pilot, one that's not so much invested in recording new material as it is in simply going through the motions of recording new material.
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Jan 17, 2012As is the case with most Pollard releases, it's hard to pick a best moment, because catchy new favorites pop out with each successive listen, timed to explode in incremental bursts.
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Jan 9, 2012As reunion records go this is certainly no lazy phoned-in companion to more lucrative live shows, as it captures promising movements forward as opposed to just fumbled nostalgic flashbacks.
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Jan 6, 2012Let's Go Eat The Factory proves that the pioneers of lo-fi still do it best.
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Jan 10, 2012Factory doesn't entirely squander the goodwill built up by their recent excellent reunion tour, but it's not significantly better than the standard Pollard solo album of the last decade.
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Jan 5, 2012This time the hits outweigh the misses.
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