Half Smiles of the DecomposedGuided By Voices · 2004

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1Everyone Thinks I'm a Raincloud (When I'm Not Looking)2Sleep Over Jack 3Girls of Wild Strawberries 4Gonna Never Have to Die 5Window of My World 6Closets of Henry 7Tour Guide at the Winston Churchill Memorial 8Asia Minor 9Sons of Apollo 10Sing for Your Meat 11Asphyxiated Circle 12A Second Spurt of Growth 13(s)Mothering and Coaching 14Huffman Prairie Flying Field

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rollingstone

7.0

“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," […]”

pitchfork

7.0

“For a while there, it seemed as though it would never end. But with this album, after a 20-year career, Robert Pollard finally lies to rest one of the greatest bandnames in rock history, and though it seems a purely symbolic gesture, we'd be lying if we said we weren't bawling right now.”