robert pollard Archive
07 Apr 2017
Album Mini-review: Circus Devils — Laughs Last
File next to: Guided by Voices, Flaming Lips, Starling Electric Seemingly random – yet reliably clever – wordplay has long been a hallmark of Robert Pollard’s work. Along with prodigious […]
15 Jul 2016
Guided by Voices: A Study in Well-prepared Spontaneity
“When we go to sound check, he goes to record stores.” That’s how guitarist Bobby Bare Jr. begins his description of the preparations Guided by Voices leader Bob Pollard makes […]
23 May 2016
Album Mini-review: Guided by Voices — Please Be Honest
File next to: The Who, Hüsker Dü, Sebadoh Robert Pollard‘s various Guided by Voices iterations have released some two dozen albums since their 1987 debut, a prodigious output that can […]
03 Feb 2008
Circus Devils: The Devil’s in the Details
“Circus Devils is fun.” That’s how Bob Pollard, former leader of indie-underground heroes Guided by Voices sums up (one of) his (many) current project(s). An exercise in what he calls […]