Universal Truths And Cycles - Guided by Voices
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  • Summary: The Ohio band fronted by Robert Pollard offers up a 19-track set that is not just a return to former home Matador Records but a full return to classic, self-produced GBV form, after working with outside producers on the previous two albums.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 18
  2. Negative: 0 out of 18
  1. GBV have made a record that should please any fan still listening.
  2. Universal Truths and Cycles is not only Guided By Voices strongest record in some time, it is also the best rock record this year.
  3. 60
    Really rather magnificent, in its way. [Jul 2002, p.107]

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Score distribution:
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  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1
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