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Guided by Voices Releases Another Suitcase of Music

August 6, 2009 8:29 p.m. by Michael Hoven

It's not enough that Guided by Voices churned out twenty-song albums every other year, and that Robert Pollard released solo albums in the meantime. No, there are always more songs, and Guided By Voices fans are happy to get them. So in 2000, if only to prove that he wrote so many songs that some of them must have come out accidentally, Robert Pollard released Suitcase: Failed Experiments and Trashed Aircraft, a four-disc set of demos and outtakes. Suitcase 2 came out in 2005, and now Pitchfork reports that there will be Suitcase 3: Up We Go Now, with 100 more songs, on November 3.

 

The third Suitcase installment has material from the mid-1990s to the band's demise. Three discs have the added bonus of attributing every song to fictional bands whose names could just as well be Guided By Voices song titles: Jubilant Toy Soldiers, East Dayton Rock Co., and Royal Canadien Mustard, to take three. On the fourth disc Pollard fesses up that the songs are by Guided by Voices, and consists of improvised cuts from 1994-95 jam sessions.

 

Suitcase 3: Up We Go Now will be released November 3 on Guided By Voices Inc. We can only assume that every noise Robert Pollard has ever recorded is in the pipeline for eventual release.

 

[Pitchfork]

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1 Response

August 11, 2009 at 11:17 a.m.

robert pollard looks like a rapist, but i'd still buy the box set.

http://blog.indiepit.com/2009/08/07/bob-pollards-full-plate-what-pitchfork-missed-circus-devils-lp-spaceships-411-more/

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