Guided By Voices are streaming a track taken from their new album ‘Let’s Go Eat The Factory’.
One of the best loved groups of their generation, Guided By Voices split on December 31st 2004. However due to the work rate of singer Robert Polland, a re-union was always mooted by fans.
Asked to provide a performance for Matador’s 21st birthday party, Guided By Voices responded. Polland again took the lead, deciding to invite along fellow members from the band’s influential mid 90s incarnation.
Playing a one off show, the single celebration quickly became a short run of American dates. Now Guided By Voices have completed work on a new studio album, with a track streaming on their official website.
‘The Unsinkable Fats Domino’ is a typically ragged piece of indie rock, cut from the same cloth that made Guided By Voices so loved the first time round. Stripped from new album ‘Let’s Go Eat The Factory’ you can listen to it HERE.
Matador are set to give ‘The Unsinkable Fats Domino’ a single release on November 22nd, while Fire Records will handle ‘Let’s Go Eat The Factory’ in the UK.
The new album is the first since 1996 to feature the ‘classic’ Guided By Voices line up: Robert Pollard, Tobin Sprout, Greg Demos, Mitch Mitchell, and Kevin Fennell.
‘Let’s Go Eat The Factory’ contains some 21 tracks, leading fans to assume that Robert Polland is in typically productive mood. However this belies the influence of other band members, with early reports suggesting that a good proportion of material on show owes a debt to Tobin Sprout.
Set to be released on January 1st, 2012 the tracklisting for ‘Let’s Go Eat The Factory’ is as follows:
Laundry And Lasers
The Head
Doughnut For A Snowman
Spiderfighter
Hang Mr. Kite
God Loves Us
The Unsinkable Fats Domino
Who Invented The Sun
The Big Hat And Toy Show
Imperial Racehorsing
How I Met My Mother
Waves
My Europa
Chocolate Boy
The Things That Never Need
Either Nelson
Cyclone Utilities (Remember Your Birthday)
Old Bones
Go Rolling Home
The Room Taking Shape
We Won’t Apologize For The Human Race
Photo Credit: Daniel Costan
