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- Record Label: Guided by Voices, Inc.
- Release Date: Oct 25, 2019
- Artist(s): Robert Pollard, Doug Gillard, Bobby Bare, Jr., Mark Shue
- Summary: The third-full-length release in 2019 for the prolific band led by Robert Pollard.
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- Record Label: Guided by Voices, Inc.
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Lo-Fi
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Nov 18, 2019It is damned good, a concise exercise in muscular rock and roll whimsy that, while not quite knocking Bee Thousand off its perch, is perfectly in line with the steady stream of quality guitar rock that Pollard has been churning out for decades.
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Oct 30, 2019While welcome, a more ambitious sound may very well soon make way for another round of succinct instant-classics like the recent “Cohesive Scoops” and “The Rally Boys.” For now, it’s worth appreciating this exciting outlier and a Guided by Voices that can be led triumphantly into uncharted water by its intrepid captain.
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Oct 30, 2019What feels like the most complete package of tracks from the band's current lineup. The club is open for diehard Guided By Voices fans and the uninitiated alike.
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Oct 30, 2019Sweating the Plague shows Robert Pollard achieving the near-impossible; stringing together a steady decade of such strong material this late into his band's career.
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Oct 30, 2019Sweating the Plague is best taken as a whole rather than in smaller portions; it works as a clever but swaggering dose of rock & roll, and it plays to this band's strengths while showing how much they've expanded their sonic palette in over three decades...or in a single year, for that matter.
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UncutOct 30, 2019Some good songs emerge--"Ego Central High" is a glammy gem that makes its repetitiveness a virtue--but otherwise this is heavy listening that too often edges towards stodge. [Dec 2019, p.29]
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MojoNov 21, 2019Pollard's lyrics are characteristically oblique, but persistence pokes through as a theme. [Jan 2020, p.90]
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