{"id":10830,"date":"2016-05-23T05:45:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T09:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=10830"},"modified":"2016-05-22T13:57:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T17:57:06","slug":"album-mini-review-guided-by-voices-please-be-honest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/23\/album-mini-review-guided-by-voices-please-be-honest\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Guided by Voices &#8212; Please Be Honest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"soundAdviceBody\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10831\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/gbv_honest.jpg\" alt=\"gbv_honest\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/gbv_honest.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/gbv_honest-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<iframe style=\"float: left; padding: 10px; width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ss&#038;ref=as_ss_li_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=B01CVQC986&#038;asins=B01CVQC986&#038;linkId=720b0adfe1ef45aa4f175920540ee5f1&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nFile next to:<\/b> The Who, H\u00fcsker D\u00fc, Sebadoh<\/p>\n<p class=\"soundAdviceBody\"><strong>Robert Pollard<\/strong>&#8216;s various <strong>Guided by Voices<\/strong> iterations have released some two dozen albums since their 1987 debut, a prodigious output that can affect quality control. &#8220;My Zodiac Companion,&#8221; the opening track on <i>Please Be Honest<\/i>, is a case in point: Pollard&#8217;s wobbly vocal sounds like a one-take affair. But he draws from a deep well of catchy melodies that even his most random lyrics can&#8217;t dampen. Several tracks here evoke psychedelic-era <strong>Beatles<\/strong>: filtered vocals, sawing cellos, found sounds, while the spare &#8220;I Think a Telescope&#8221; sounds like an out-of-tune rethink of<strong> Robert Fripp&#8217;s League of Crafty Guitarists<\/strong>. Few will know (and fewer will care) what Pollard&#8217;s going on about with mentions of grasshoppers, soap and caterpillars, and the overly mannered vocals on briefer tracks like &#8220;Sad Baby Eyes&#8221; make <i>Please Be Honest<\/i> characteristically uneven. But with GbV, that&#8217;s half the fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: The Who, H\u00fcsker D\u00fc, Sebadoh Robert Pollard&#8216;s various Guided by Voices iterations have released some two dozen albums since their 1987 debut, a prodigious output that can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,62,65],"tags":[954,1859],"class_list":["post-10830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-guided-by-voices","tag-robert-pollard","cat-49-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10833,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10830\/revisions\/10833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}