photo by brennan cavanaugh
sup peoples? i am so far behind on my uncle bob news/music its kinda pathetic. for some reason i have been selfish with my listening habits as of late and i barely listened to standard gargoyle decisions and coast to coast carpet of love. i hear they’re great but i think i may have od’d on everything bob/gbv for the better part of 15 years that i had to cease to care for a while in order to maintain the relationship. anywho, i didn’t know that he split with merge to form his own label which he has respectfully and lovingly called guided by voices inc. the second release, first being the 3 song ep weatherman and skin goddess, on his new label will be robert pollard is off to business which was produced by tim tobias and comes in at a scant 10 songs (gasp!) maybe he’s coming to grips with that inner editor he desperately needs from time to time. here be the first single and some other stuff to cozy up to.
gratification to concrete off robert pollard is off to business
love your spaceman off superman was a rocker
current desperation off coast to coast carpet of love
pill gone girl off standard gargoyle decisions
circle saw boys club off silverfish trivia
death of a party off keene brother’s blues and boogie shoes
official ironman rally song (demo) off gbv’s under the bushes under stars
there are about 10-15 more mp3’s on his site.
in other bob news (taken verbatim - see copy and pasted from his site)
On August 6, Robert Pollard will release Town Of Mirrors: The Reassembled Imagery Of Robert Pollard, the first ever collection of his artwork. This 144-page tome will collect more than 180 collages that Pollard has created throughout the years, including several made exclusively for this collection. The full-color, coffee table-ready book, which will be published by Fantagraphics, includes an introduction by author Rick Moody, who performed similar honors for 2004’s self-explanatory The Wilco Book. No stranger to the art world, Pollard created most of the surreal album covers for Guided By Voices and his solo albums, and his work has been exhibited in Michael Imperioli’s Studio Dante in New York and the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in his native Ohio. order it here.
