Two somewhat shocking announcements today. One you may care about, one you may not.
The one I think is most important is that Guided by Voices have announced a new album in their classic lineup.
Let's Go Eat the Factory comes out January 1st, 2012. I had an inkling that this would happen, just based on how damn prolific Robert Pollard is. It's fitting that this album will be released on a day that I'm sure to have a massive hangover. I mean, that's how Pollard would want it. It's worth noting that with 21 songs, they may have gone back to doing songs of extremely short length. This is what made Guided by Voices so great in the first place, so we'll have to see whether this lineup can still bring the magic. They never did make a bad album, but Pollard's stuff afterwards has always been of suspect quality.
The second is rather huge, and also quite unimportant to most people. R.E.M. broke up. Yeah, it should have happened 15 years ago, but hey, better late than never. Now if only we could get The Simpsons off the air, we'd finally be able to leave those 90's relics alone. Oh wait, Guided By Voices
did just announce a new album, huh?
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