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- Record Label: Guided by Voices
- Release Date: Jun 10, 2008
- Summary: The ex-Guided By Voices singer releases his latest solo outing on his own label.
- Record Label: Guided by Voices
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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| Confessions of a Teenage Jerk-Off | |
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| Since you laid the scenery girl You will always be around Time tested and true - oh yeah When you laid around a two day night You were crying in my... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 8 out of 11
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Mixed: 2 out of 11
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Negative: 1 out of 11
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Pollard has long been in the business of writing songs, but here he seems invigorated; and for the first time in a long while, his business is mixed with pleasure.
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Alternative PressRobert Pollard breaks with several of his own traditions--fewer songs (only 10), and of those, eight break the 2-and-a-half-minute barrier. [Aug 2008, p.163]
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UncutPollard fleshes out his vaguely familiar melodies with inventive, unpredictably expansive arrangements. [July 2008, p.108]
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Under The RadarOff to Business will please fans and even bring in some new ones. [Summer 2008, p.84]
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Despite the invocation of those crusty legends [Guided by Voices], Business is no lo-fi throwback.
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Although Business ultimately ranks as yet another less-than-legendary offering from a living indie legend, its shortcomings are much more nuanced than typical Pollard releases.
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Off to Business--released eponymously by Guided By Voices, Inc.--is the ultimate product of this trend: an album full of ebullient mid-tempo rockers, ebullient pretty guitar parts, and ebullient power drum fills.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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DanJ.Jun 25, 2008Top to bottom greatness.
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BenJ.Jun 25, 2008
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