Thursday, October 19, 2006

Robert Pollard: Normal Happiness

CML call number: CD/POPULAR/Pollard
Contents:
Accidental Texas Who, Whispering Whip, Supernatural Car Lover, Boxing About, Serious Bird Woman (You Turn Me On), Get a Faceful, Towers and Landslides, I Feel Gone Again, Gasoline Ragtime, Rhoda Rhoda, Give Up the Grape, Pegasus Glue Factory, Top of My Game, Tomorrow Will Not Be Another Day, Join the Eagles, Full Sun (Dig the Slowness).
Personnel: Robert Pollard, vocals, guitars; Todd Tobias, guitars, guitar leads, bass, drums, keyboards; Chris Sheehan, synthesizer and piano on two tracks; produced by Todd Tobias.
Artist website: http://www.robertpollard.net/
Wired wrote: "The former frontman for Guided by Voices could always churn out flawless pop; now he's found the self-control to include just the sparkling gems, not fractured experiments" ("Playlist," 10/06, p. 90).
The Times of London wrote: "16 dynamic, direct, two-minute guitar-pop songs, with enough concealed twists to make most modern rock music seem stupid. Four stars" (10/8/06).

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