Guided By Voices

This is supposed to be the final word from Guided By Voices. Certainly not the last from Robert Pollard, but the last from the massively prolific GBV. Is it a fall from indie rock grace? Of course not. It's exactly the kind of brilliant, anthemic, jangling, riff-rocking pop that Pollard can do in his sleep.

Half Smiles of the Decomposed is reportedly the final Guided by Voices studio album, and
like many of the band's best, it's packed to bursting with sometimes inscrutable pleasures:
melodies with the whiff of half-remembered classics, misbegotten home-taping
experiments, arrangements that appear to collapse before resolving in brave choruses and,
in "Window of My World," the baroque folkie musings of a psychedelic jester. Wi... More >