Guided by Voices announce cool new album inspired by shitty old Polar Vortex!

Guided by Voices announce cool new album inspired by shitty old Polar Vortex!

Jeez. Even by his own insan-o standards, the illimitable entity known as “Robert Pollard-and-whoever-the-other-guys-in-Guided-by-Voices-happen-to-be-today” sure seems to be getting guided by a whole fuckton of a lot of voices right about now. I mean, we pretty much, like, just told you about this other album the other day, practically. And now, here’s old-boy again with another new record! Yup. I know. Insane. But luckily, there’s a few easy ways to tell it apart from the other one. And hey, I’m such a good dude that I’m going to take time out of my busy schedule of cursing-unnecessarily-in-print and hyphenating-things-for-slightly-exaggerated-comic-effect to share them with you right now!

For starters, unlike that other record, this one’s called Cool Planet. Also unlike that other record, this one is coming out on Fire Records. ALSO unlike that other record, this one has a release date of May 19. Still with me? Great! Let’s keep going. It was recorded at Cyberteknics in Dayton, Ohio “during the sub-freezing Polar Vortex of 2014” and features a lineup of Pollard on vocals and guitar (duh), Tobin Sprout on guitar and vocals, Mitch Mitchell on guitar, Greg Demos on bass, and former “ex-late-version” GBV member Kevin March on drums. This is all unique information, people!

There’s also a special release party thing being held solely for this one specific record. It’s being thrown by Fire Records on Sunday, May 18 at London’s The Lexington, and you can get yourself some tickets for it right over here.

And finally, one of the tracks, “Bad Love Is Easy To Do,” is streaming now at the band’s soundcloud page and at the below-embedded thingy and appears to be unique to this specific album. Although… yeah, admittedly, sometimes it’s kinda hard to know that for sure with a compulsive album-dropper like Pollard. Let’s take his word for it though, yeah?

Cool Planet tracklisting:

01. Authoritarian Zoo
02. Fast Crawl
03. Psychotic Crush
04. Costume Makes the Man
05. Hat of Flames
06. These Dooms
07. Table at Fool’s Tooth
08. All American Boy
09. You Get Every Game
10. Pan Swimmer
11. The Bone Church
12. Bad Love is Easy to Do
13. The No Doubters
14. Narrated by Paul
15. Cream of Lung
16. Males of Wormwood Mars
17. Ticket to Hide
18. Cool Planet

• Guided by Voices: http://www.gbv.com
• Fire: http://www.firerecords.com

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