After disbanding Guided by Voices, Robert Pollard worked on solo projects, set up his own label, and nursed a few GBV odds and ends through the pipeline before starting a new band, Boston Spaceships, with Chris Slusarenko (the Takeovers, Sprinkler) and John Moen (the Decemberists, the Dharma Bums). Working Pollard's familiar but skewed take on past garage and pop styles, Boston Spaceships released Brown Submarine in 2008 and Planets Are Blasted and Zero to 99 in 2009. Our Cubehouse Still Rocks followed in 2010. The trio reconvened in 2011 to record Let It Beard, a 70- minute album including guitar work by Colin Newman (Wire), J. Mascis (Dinosaur Jr.), Steve Wynn (the Dream Syndicate), and Mick Collins (the Dirtbombs). ~ Steve Leggett