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Apr 6, 2012On Mouseman Cloud, Guided By Voices frontman Robert Pollard is up to his same old genius.
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Apr 3, 2012Even the lesser songs have enough catchy moments to rank Mouseman Cloud up there with any of Pollard's unending solo material from the decade preceding it, but the strongest songs leave one wondering what kind of masterpieces he could construct if he'd just limit himself to one record a year.
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Apr 3, 2012This buckshot spray of quick pop tunes is another wild success in his constantly twisting variations on a theme.
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Apr 3, 2012Playful and spontaneous.
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Apr 3, 2012On Mouseman Cloud, his fifth solo album in the past two years, Pollard's craft runs a bit stale, impressing more with quantity of ideas than actual substance.
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Apr 3, 2012Mouseman Cloud isn't game-changing, but it's definitely Robert Pollard's finest collection of songs since Robert Pollard Is Off to Business.
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Apr 3, 2012Flat, rather forced attempts at oddballery give Mouseman a scattered, self-conscious feel it never quite shakes for more than a couple of minutes at a time.
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Q MagazineApr 25, 2012The 17 loose, grungy guitar-led songs here ... sound full of renewed energy. [May 2012, p.103]
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MagnetApr 19, 2012Mouseman is essentially another 17 tracks for completists hankering to mine the singer's ceaseless compendium of songs in search of new nuggets. [#85, p.58]
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UncutApr 6, 2012The songwriter is in fine form--but it's sometimes hard to suppress doubts over the need for solo Pollard now GBV are back. [Apr 2012, p.83]