“Guided By Voices have never quite risen above schoolteacher-turned-singer Robert Pollard’s richly mythologized culthood. But Isolation Drills makes the case more persuasively than ever that these indie-pop godfathers should matter to more than just the loyalists. The latest hired-gun producer, Rob Schnapf (who’s worked with Foo Fighters, Beck and Elliott Smith), finds the balance between […]”
“Tonight, the people of Dayton, Ohio will sleep a sound sleep. Children, tucked tight in their beds, will dream dreams of twirling microphones, of feet flying far above gray-haired heads, of striped white pants and barely coherent Who covers. For the day has come that many feared they would never see: their dubious hero, Robert Pollard, the Silver Captain, has released a decent post-*Mag Earwhig!* ”
“Tonight, the people of Dayton, Ohio will sleep a sound sleep. Children, tucked tight in their beds, will dream dreams of twirling microphones, of feet flying far above gray-haired heads, of striped white pants and barely coherent Who covers. For the day has come that many feared they would never see: their dubious hero, Robert Pollard, the Silver Captain, has released a decent post-*Mag Earwhig!* ”
