“What spectral force, illusion, or trick of light has fooled so many erstwhile critics into apologizing for Robert Pollard over these long years since the broadly accepted twilight of Guided by Voices' reign over the (very nearly) barren kingdom of indie rock as we now know it? The sum of all the criticism heaped on GBV for years (excepting *Do the Collapse*-- universally agreed upon as the absolut”
