Pollard, Robert: Faulty Superheroes
Pollard, Robert: Faulty Superheroes
Format: CD
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Artist: Pollard, Robert
Label: Guided By Voices
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 655035085722
Genre: Rock
2015 release from the most prolific artist in modern rock 'n' roll. Faulty Superheroes jets off Pollard's vinyl-grooved runway like the prototype for some new supersonic power pop fighter jet, and at this point in his career is anyone surprised that the 12 tracks on this effort are uniformly awesome? The answer is no. Exactly no one is surprised. The biggest thing with which Pollard has to contend is his own miraculously consistent greatness. That he rarely-if ever-stumbles is some kind of marvel, and perhaps implies superpowers of his own. Faulty Superheroes has a tossed-off, effortless magnificence for which the rash of indie-whatevers trailing in his wake from Bee Thousand to the present constantly strive, and fail to achieve. The constant sense of surprise, of wonder, of discovery that one routinely finds in superbly structured instant bomp classics like "Faster the Great" is not something that can be taught, or learned, or imparted, or copied. Pollard largely abandoned the four-track 20 years ago and still gets tagged as "lo-fi," which is a word that makes even less sense now in the days of digital recording than it did then in the days of occasionally tape-hiss smothered coulda-shoulda-been hits. Are there bum notes here and there? Recording-accidents-on-purpose left in like crushed empty beer cans strewn around the miniature, glimmering pop/rock/psych/prog construction sites left standing in the wake of each finished/unfinished songs? You betcha. The Guided By Voices aesthetic was formed and developed and continues to be improved by Pollard, which makes all the more puzzling the hand-wringing that accompanies every announcement of a so-called GBV "break-up" (or for that matter, "reunion"). As long as we have Bob, we need nothing else. And we have Bob. If you're counting your blessings, don't forget that one. It's kinda crucial.
Tracks:
1.1 What a Man
1.2 Case of Elimination
1.3 Faulty Superheroes
1.4 Faster the Great
1.5 The Real Wilderness
1.6 Photo Enforced Human Highway
1.7 Take Me to Yolita
1.8 Up and Up and Up
1.9 You Only Need One
1.10 Bizarro's Last Quest
1.11 Mozart's Throne
1.12 Perikeet Vista
Audio Sample:
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