How Do You Spell Heaven

Description

Guided By Voices is on a roll. One could argue that GBV is never not on a roll, that Robert Pollards output plows past the word prolific like prolific is standing still in a snowbank and thats true, but this new version of the band (Doug Gillard, Bobby Bare Jr, Mark Shue, Kevin March) has given Pollard new tools to complement his song-hammer. Thus, ergo, quod erat demonstrandum: roll. Hot on the heels of the smothered-in-plaudits double album August By Cake comes this hot and heavy fifteen-tune long player, a melody-dense thwack to the earholes that will both energize and deplete your body of its remaining music appreciation enzymes. Recorded by the band in New York, and by Pollard in Ohio, How Do You Spell Heaven capitalizes on the current incarnations tour-buffed shine without sacrificing eternal verities such as but not limited to off-kilter rhythmic jolts krazy chords purposefully imperfect harmonies and fragmented structures that start and stop on a coin of small denomination and go somewhere else, and quickly. Theres more, much morethe easiest, laziest way to sum up this latest album is the most obvious How do you spell heaven Shout it from the rafters G-B-!