Howdy and welcome to my store! After a fifteen-year hiatus, the “classic lineup” of Guided By Voices (Robert Pollard, Tobin Sprout, Mitch Mitchell, Greg Demos and Kevin Fennell) finishes off its year-long reunion tour by releasing an album of 21 new songs, deliberately choosing to return to what bandleader Pollard calls the “semi-collegial” approach of iconic GBV albums like Bee Thousand and Alien Lanes. Let’s Go Eat the Factory is much more than a mere return, however: sprawling, variegated, heavy, melodic, and yet still recognizably and coherently Guided By Voices in both its literal and mythic senses. “At first I said: no reunion, period,” explains Pollard about the decision to revive Guided By Voices. “And definitely no record or re-formation. But the tour went so well; the response was really unexpected. I thought at some point that a lot of people would like to hear new GBV music. The chemistry was still there.” Eschewing the recording studio, Let’s Go Eat the Factory was instead manufactured in the living rooms, basements and garages of various longtime band members. Some tracks were recorded more-or-less live at Mitchell’s garage, where the band would often practice back in the early and mid-90s. These sessions comprised Mitchell, Robert and Jimmy Pollard (Bob’s brother and long-time collaborator, who, though never a part of the touring ensemble, always played a crucial role on the classic-era releases). Some tracks were improvised over acoustic jam sessions at Demos’s house. Many were recorded at Sprout’s place in Wherever, Michigan, and later lovingly messed with in order to achieve the proper level of weirdness. Band members occasionally switched instruments, and Pollard gladly accepted input from other band members. Sprout wrote or co-wrote and sings on six of the 21 songs. The aesthetic is very much GBV, but in some unexpected ways (more prevalent use of keyboards and samples, for one thing) the 21st century can’t help but poke its nose into the resulting music. Devoted fans of Bee Thousand will not be disappointed in, for instance, the demonically tuneful “Chocolate Boy,” or the relentless chug of “We Won’t Apologize for the Human Race,” which Sprout describes as “Peter Gabriel singing ‘I Am the Walrus.’” Other standouts include “Doughnut for a Snowman,” which Pollard calls “the goofiest, twinkliest song I’ve ever written,” or “Spiderfighter,” a Sprout number that was in fact the first song title conceived for the new album, and which features a piano coda that Pollard likens to “a Pete Townshend demo for Lifehouse.”

TRACK LISTING 1. Laundry and Lasers 2. The Head 3. Doughnut for a Snowman 4. Spiderfighter 5. Hang Mr. Kite 6. God Loves Us 7. The Unsinkable Fats Domino 8. Who Invented the Sun 9. The Big Hat and Toy Show 10. Imperial Racehorsing 11. How I Met My Mother 12. Waves 13. My Europa 14. Chocolate Boy 15. The Things That Never Need 16. Either Nelson 17. Cyclone Utilities (Remember Your Birthday) 18. Old Bones 19. Go Rolling Home 20. The Room Taking Shape 21. We Won’t Apologize for the Human Race

• First album in seven years, following their enormously successful reunion tour • First recordings since 1996 of “classic” lineup: Robert Pollard, Tobin Sprout, Mitch Mitchell, Kevin Fennell, Greg Demos and Jim Pollard

• Vinyl includes digital download card

Record Condition: This record is brand new and unplayed!

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