Guided By Voices - Universe Room - LP/CD

EXPECTED RELEASE DATE: 7TH FEBRUARY 2025

Universe Room is the eighteenth Guided By Voices album in ten years and packs a vast mix of energy levels and sounds into seventeen diverse tracks in less than forty minutes. The new record ventures into truly surprising territory, where barely any song segments and choruses are revisited and fidelity daringly shifts between lo-fi and hi-fi. “I wanted to create, hopefully, an experience, kind of a wild ride, where the listener would want to hear it multiple times in order to grasp all the sections and fields of sound to discover something new with each listen,” says Robert Pollard. “I trimmed down the songs so that there wasn’t a lot of repetition, so you get a lot of sections that happen only once or twice.” Universe Room embodies a realm of new horizons for Guided By Voices, who continue to redefine and expand as they blast off to unpredictable worlds.

Tracklist: 1. Driving Time 2. I Couldn't See The Light 3. I Will Be A Monk 4. The Great Man 5. Clearly Aware 6. Dawn Believes 7. Play Shadows 8. Fly Religion 9. The Well Known Soldier 10. Hers Purple 11. Independent Animal 12. 19th Man To Fly An Airplane 13. Elfin Flower With Knees 14. FranCisco 15. Aluminum Stingray Girl 16. Aesop Dreamed Of Lions 17. Everybody's A Star