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Guided By Voices: Let’s Go Eat the Factory

Guided By Voices, Inc.

Robert Pollard commemorates his momentous reunion of the legendary mid ‘90s edition of rebooted indie icons Guided By Voices with the band’s first new LP since 2004’s Half Smiles of the Decomposed. Handcrafted in the living spaces of returning members Greg Demos, Mitch Mitchell and Tobin Sprout, Let’s Go Eat the Factory exists between the high end of the 1996 swan song of this particular combination (rounded out by Kevin Fennell and Bob’s brother Jimmy Pollard) Under the Bushes, Under the Stars and the hiss of their collagist masterpiece, 1994’s Bee Thousand. And though some might quibble with goofier moments like “Chocolate Boy” and “Doughnut for a Snowman,” its such mid-fi gold like the infectious, Stiff-esque “The Unsinkable Fats Domino” and the Sprout-penned mini-epic “Spiderfighter” that make the 21-track set from this veteran lineup a true classic.