More Lies From The Gooseberry Bush Teenage Guitar SKU: GBVI51LP Barcode: 655035085111 17.00 £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Fire Records Released Date: 16th February 2015 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Listen Robert Pollard, head lunatic of the Guided By Voices’ asylum, has a surfeit of original thoughts. (Most people are lucky to have even one, ever). That this even needs to be expressed is evidence enough for its “truth,” as only obvious or obviously untrue things can ever hope to be true. Or to approach the truth. Something Pollard does with uncanny regularity, and which is further on display on every track on the gloriously unkempt, roiling-with-ideas More Lies From The Gooseberry Bush, the second record Pollard has released under the nom-de-rock Teenage Guitar. Here’s a song title: “Matthew’s Ticker and Shaft a. come to breakfast b. the girl’s c. division of swans d. when death has a nice ring.” It starts with distorted guitar over a primitive snare-and-bass-drum beat (all instruments on all songs played by Pollard), shifts into an out-of-tune piano clumping along a simple seven-chord progression, lurches into a wall of distorted guitar as two tracks of Pollard wail wide-panned in each speaker, before finally resolving in a pretty harpsichord (or some synthesized version thereof) figure inelegantly trips over itself before trailing off into the next track: “The Instant American,” which presents a multi-tracked Pollard vocals chanting over a background of what sounds like a bunch of people at a party drinking. These are not the two strangest tracks on the fifteen-song album, which clocks in at just over thirty minutes. If there are times when Pollard’s musical ambition seems to overwhelm his ability to present his ideas coherently, that’s a feature, not a bug. The spazzy machine-generated beat of “A Guaranteed Ratio,” the ham-handed church organ of “Good Mary’s House,” the off-key crooning, the awkwardly plucked possible-banjo on “All You Fought For” the general (but not always) sloppiness, the rumbling toms and slashing power chording of “New Light”: it’s all of a piece, and that piece adds up to a sense of urgency and what sounds an awful lot like unconstrained joy suffusing every single track on More Lies From The Gooseberry Bush. For those who like their Pollard stately, tuneful, and elegiac – sure, he can do that without effort, but that’s not what Teenage Guitar is about. Teenage Guitar is about trying hard without seeming to try hard. The result is that rare thing: a completely original album. Which is also a true delight, a sky-blue gem, a timeless and untimely cabinet of wonder. And by some few miles the greatest musical artifact your ears will have the pleasure of encountering this year. Artist Teenage Guitar Genre Rock And Pop Label Fire Records Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country United Kingdom http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/reviews/albums/teenage-guitar-more-lies-from-the-gooseberry-bush Track Listings 1. Go Around (The Apartment Dwellers) 2. Spliced At Acme Fair 3. A Guaranteed Ratio 4. Good Mary's House 5. Skin Ride 6. Full Glass Gone 7. All You Fought For 8. Gear OP 9. No Escape 10. Matthew's Ticker and Shaft a. come to breakfast b. the girls arrive c. division of swans d. when death has a nice ring 11. The Instant American 12. Normalized 13. New Light 14. Birthplace of the Electric Starter 15. 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