Guided by Voices - Please Be Honest (2016) [FLAC]

  Genre: Rock 
  Style: Indie
  Source: WEB
  Codec: FLAC
  Bit rate: ~ 900 kbps
  Bit depth: 16
  Sample rate: 44.1 kHz

  01 My Zodiac Companion
  02 Kid on a Ladder
  03 Come on Mr. Christian
  04 The Grasshopper Eaters
  05 Glittering Parliaments
  06 The Caterpillar Workforce
  07 Sad Baby Eyes
  08 The Quickers Arrive
  09 Hotel X (Big Soap)
  10 I Think a Telescope
  11 Please Be Honest
  12 Nightmare Jamboree
  13 Unfinished Business
  14 Defeatist's Lament
  15 Eye Shop Heaven

  Guided by Voices is whoever and whatever Robert Pollard decides it is. Pollard made that clear in 1997, when he fired the band's original lineup and recruited Cobra Verde to be his backing band during the recording of the album Mag Earwhig. Now Pollard has taken an even bigger step, declaring he is Guided by Voices, both literally and figuratively. As usual, he wrote and sang all the songs for 2016's Please Be Honest. But this time, he also played all the instruments himself, not bothering with other musicians when he has the magic of multi-tracking at his disposal. Anyone who heard More Lies from the Gooseberry Bush, the truly inept 2014 album Pollard recorded under the name Teenage Guitar, has good reason to be wary of this decision. On More Lies, Pollard revealed just how clumsy he can be as an instrumentalist, but thankfully, he's stepped up his game on Please Be Honest. Admittedly, he still isn't much of a guitarist, bassist, or drummer, but on Please Be Honest, he has the good sense to keep things simple. Between the sturdy but rudimentary performances and the buzzy lo-fi audio, Please Be Honest is a dead ringer for the wobbly homemade sound of GbV's pre-Alien Lanes era. Many of these tracks sound like demos, but they have a "first thought, best thought" enthusiasm that suits Pollard's angular melodies better than excessive polish