'Universe Room' is the eighteenth Guided By Voices album in ten years and packs a vast mix of energy levels and sounds into seventeen diverse tracks in less than forty minutes. The new record ventures into truly surprising territory, where barely any song segments and choruses are revisited and fidelity daringly shifts between lo-fi and hi-fi.
“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,” says Robert Pollard. “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.”
'Universe Room' embodies a realm of new horizons for Guided By Voices, who continue to redefine and expand as they blast off to unpredictable worlds.
“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,” says Robert Pollard. “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.”
'Universe Room' embodies a realm of new horizons for Guided By Voices, who continue to redefine and expand as they blast off to unpredictable worlds.
TRACK LISTING
1. Driving Time
2. I Couldn’t See The Light
3. I Will Be A Monk
4. The Great Man
5. Clearly Aware
6. Dawn Believes
7. Play Shadows
8. Fly Religion
9. The Well Known Soldier
10. Hers Purple
11. Independent Animal
12. 19th Man To Fly An Airplane
13. Elfin Flower With Knees
14. FranCisco
15. Aluminum Stingray Girl
16. Aesop Dreamed Of Lions
17. Everybody’s A Star