The Crawling Distance - Robert Pollard
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64 out of 100

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7.2 out of 10

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  • Summary: The first of six planned albums from Ex-Guided By Voices singer Robert Pollard (and his other side projects) for 2009.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
  1. Hartford Courant
    80
    The Crawling Distance, Pollard's umpteenth disc since officially going solo in 2004, offers more of what listeners have come to expect.
  2. PopMatters
    80
    It’s an album sure to please the long-time fans, but so damn fun and hook-filled that it should find a following in the larger indie rock community. This is an album you can build a career around.
  3. Uncut
    60
    A solo album that sounds like a series of song sketches. [Feb 2009, p.89]
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  4. Pitchfork
    28
    Never has that rift between Pollard the songwriter and Tobias the arranger been more transparent-- and more problematic-- than on the formless, often dull The Crawling Distance, a particularly blank batch of Pollard tunes dressed to the nines in Tobias' perfunctory sheen.

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  1. Positive: 2 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 3
  3. Negative: 1 out of 3
  1. EdgarF
    8
    Not sure why this is getting such negative reviews. Apart from the truly awful "Cave Zone," this is probably the most consistent solo album of the man's career. Some of the reviews just seem to be annoyed at his prolific output, but that has nothing to do with the quality of this release.… Expand
  2. NickE.
    8
    I don't know how you could think that this album is "utter crap". Pretty straight forward album and also really good for a man who is releasing 7 records in 2009.… Expand
  3. LesH.
    0
    Utter crap.

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