Pre-Release
- FEB 7, 2025
- 17 Songs
- Universe Room
- Alien Lanes · 1995
- Do the Collapse · 1999
- Do the Collapse · 1999
- Bee Thousand · 1994
- Bee Thousand · 1994
- Alien Lanes · 1995
- Alien Lanes · 1995
- Bee Thousand · 1994
- Alien Lanes · 1995
Essential Albums
- 1995
- Guided By Voices’ seventh album is a cornucopia of Who-style song-sketches played with the attention span (and beer budget) of a few old friends in a musty garage. Bringing the sprawl of their earlier albums into serious focus, Bee Thousand fits 20 songs into 37 minutes—a hooky, imaginative, and charmingly rough-around-the-edges experience. Despite their nerdy, obscure subject matter, the band’s songs can be surprisingly touching: Check out “I Am a Scientist,” which turns its conceit into a parable about the world.
Music Videos
- 2001
Artist Playlists
- Running through four decades of the group's prolific release schedule.
- The ‘90s lo-fi rock ‘n' roll band's left-of-the-dial offspring.
- A wide-open store of left-field rock ‘n' roll and lo-fi bliss.
Live Albums
More To Hear
- Albert Hammond Jr picks the 5 Best Songs on Apple Music.
About Guided By Voices
In the time it takes you to read this sentence, Robert Pollard has probably written another three songs. To say that the creative mastermind of Dayton, Ohio psych-pop institution Guided by Voices is prolific would be the grossest of understatements: Ever since the former schoolteacher started the band in 1983 as an after-work hobby project with a revolving-door cast of drinking buddies, Pollard has released literally thousands of songs. Many of them went largely unheard until critics discovered 1994’s Bee Thousand and 1995’s Alien Lanes, records that masterfully condensed the melodic sugar rush of The Beatles and the anthemic majesty of The Who into 60-second Wire-sized morsels, and captured them on crude four-track recordings that bore the endearingly nostalgic patina of some long-lost cassette mixtape you found under the seat in your car. But just as soon as he had spawned a generation of lo-fi auteurs, Pollard fulfilled his latent arena-rock fantasies on 1999’s Ric Ocasek-produced Do the Collapse, before retiring the GBV name in 2004 to focus on myriad solo projects. Since reviving Guided by Voices in 2012, Pollard’s been making up for lost time, releasing no fewer than 20 albums of alternate-universe anthems over the following decade.
- ORIGIN
- Dayton, OH, United States
- FORMED
- 1983
- GENRE
- Rock