GUIDED BY VOICES - KEEP IT IN MOTION

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Keep It In Line
by R.C. Avellanosa

Just this morning, Lost Transmission 9 traded something delightful. As promised, "Keep It In Motion" was delivered by power pop express mail. On "Keep It In Motion", first single off “Clown Spots A UFO”, I hear Sprout singing with Pollard, so wonderful I had to smile. "White World" is piece of awesome bliss, Pixies-ish. For a moment I thought I was playing "Debaser". "Pink Wings" was like a static lullaby. I played each track three times with a pause to savour the moment. I think that's how singles should be played. It's one of those releases you'd hate to miss. I'm so grateful that a transmission was lost in my area. This is the reunited classic '93-'96 line-up of Guided By Voices (R. Pollard, Sprout, Mitchell, Fennell and Demos). This is a single off their full-length "Class Clown Spots A UFO" coming up around May. And a feature somewhere says it is now complete waiting for that month to come. I can expect Guided By Voices to churn up more albums forward. Indie bands and followers everywhere will be up to their heels for the next Guided By Voices obsession. GBV Tunes shall be heard across continents, fate of which is dictated by discarded boomboxes, beer bottles, butts and ashes of pleasure.

Robert was way off the mark when he announced once that "Half Smiles of The Decomposed" would be their last album. Saying "This is it!” but hey, look! Three to four albums for the year at least is possible with the pace their going. One album each quarter would be neat; I'd sport a heartfelt grin the whole year. The resurrection has given the GBV crowd all over the world yet another reason to jump high, fly like superman across the room and to the pit. It is a running statement proving that old Indie Rock is not dead.

Notes on KEEP IT IN MOTION on NME

"Sweetly touching brain pop... playground psychedelia at its most brilliant and uplifting." **** 4 Stars – Mojo // "A kaleidoscopic burst of ideas and passion and absurdity." 4 Stars - The Guardian // "Re-formed underground legends return at full pelt." **** 4 Stars - Q Magazine // "A glorious, frayed-at-the-edges patchwork of bristling garage pop, stadium rock racketeering, saloon-bar tenderness, and nightmarishly ramshackle dirges." 8/10

 

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