The first in our advent calender of December treats is a new festive cut from the orginal line up of Guided By Voices. Keep your peepers on what’s behind our advent windows of aural delights each day up to the 25th of December.
Guided by Voices have released a sweet festive treat in the shape of a free single “Doughnut for a Snowman” below, which has also been released this week on an exclusive 7″ single taken from the brand new Guided By Voices album Let’s Go Eat The Factory (due out on Fire Records in January). Featuring the ‘classic’ line up of Robert Pollard, Mitch Mitchell, Kevin Fennell, Tobin Sprout, Greg Demos and Jimmy Pollard at their improv best, ‘Doughnut For A Snowman’ is, in Robert Pollard’s own words, “the twinkliest song” he’s ever written.
Guided By Voices – Doughnut For A Snowman by FIRE RECORDS
The 7″ single features four exclusive B-sides; ‘So High’ – a previously recorded (unreleased) Robert Pollard song (Robert played the recorder!), a portion of which was edited into the song ‘Doughnut for the Snowman’ for the album; ‘Without Necks’ and ‘Fish On My Leg’ were recorded at Mitch’s house by Bob, Mitch & GBV secret weapon Jim Pollard; ‘1234’ is a new Tobin Sprout song.
The 7″ sold out immediately but you can still buy the full single with the other tracks via Itunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/doughnut-for-a-snowman-ep/id478501079
After many years away from these shores, Guided by Voices return to Europe with a headline slot on the third day of the I’ll Be Your Mirror festival at Alexandra Palace curated by ATP on 27 May 2012 http://www.atpfestival.com/events/ibymlondon2012.php and have also been confirmed for the Primavera Festival (30 May – 3 June 2012) in Spain http://www.primaverasound.com/ps/?page=home〈=en.
The new album Let’s Go Eat the Factory is first album of new material from the “classic line up” of Guided By Voices (Robert Pollard, Tobin Sprout, Mitch Mitchell, Greg Demos, and Kevin Fennell) in fifteen years. This sees finishes the culmination of a year-long reunion tour by releasing an album of 21 new songs, deliberately choosing to return to what bandleader Robert Pollard calls the “semi-collegial” approach of iconic GBV albums like Bee Thousand and Alien Lanes. Choosing to eschew the recording studio, the album was instead manufactured in the living rooms, basements, and garages of various long-time bandmembers. Let’s Go Eat The Factory is much more than a mere return, however: sprawling, variegated, heavy, melodic, and yet still recognizably and coherently Guided By Voices in both its literal and mythic senses.
More info here: http://www.firerecords.com/site/index.php?page=artists&artistid=00000000703
