NEW SINGLES FROM GUIDED BY VOICES AND THE MOLES OUT NOW!
"Dawn Believes" and "Since I Don't Know When" are on streaming now.
The 18th Guided By Voices album in 10 years is aptly titled Universe Room, packing a vast mix of energy levels and previously undiscovered constellations of sounds into 17 diverse tracks over a compact space of less than 40 minutes. Universe Room is new sonic territory for the band, as Bob Pollard recently explained to Rolling Stone: “I wanted to create, hopefully, an experience, kind of a wild ride, where the listener would want to hear it multiple times in order to grasp all the sections and fields of sound to discover something new with each listen. I trimmed down the songs so that there wasn’t a lot of repetition, so you get a lot of sections that happen only once or twice.”
Pre-order Universe Room and listen to “Dawn Believes” at the links below:
GBV guitarist Doug Gillard told Northern Transmissions about how “Dawn Believes” came to be: “This song was assigned to me to record all the music for, and 3 others on this album went to the other members. I learned Bob’s basic chords from his demo, played 2 electric rhythms and added mellotron, piano, acoustics, more electrics while avoiding bass or drums. I endeavored to have the second half build a bit, and it was fun to do, as always. “Dawn Believes” are the first words on the back label of most bottles of the blue liquid dish soap.”
More exciting news in the world of Guided by Voices: Robert Pollard is releasing the new album by The Moles on his label Splendid Research. It’s titled “Composition Book,” and it’s also out on Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. Pre-order Composition Book and listen to the first single, “Had To Be You,” at the links below.
Bob says: “Richard Davies is one of the last great songwriters on planet Earth. Every song on Composition Book is up there with his finest and so it's no small feat that after 35 years of making beautiful records, this one is his best.”
“The Australian-bred, New England-based Richard Davies has long been
a secret-handshake artist for indie diehards; his songs suggest
self-contained pop hits from a crooked dimension.” - The New Yorker
“The greatest differentiator between the work of the Moles and that
of their contemporaries, though, is Davies himself. As a presence,
there is something deeply and beguilingly inscrutable about him, a
purposeful blankness that betrays an enormous amount of weight and
depth behind it, and oozes both vulnerability and vitriol when it
breaks and cracks.” - Pitchfork