Earlier this week, to the surprise of pretty much everyone, except perhaps the folks at WORT's Wake Up Futuristic Radio Program, the world was given it's first listen to the new recordings of Guided By Voices classic line up's forthcoming, Let's Go Eat The Factory. Can we stop with the classic line up business and refer to them simply as GBV now? O.K. moving on, as we told you last month, the 21 track LP will be released on January 1st and will be the first of two new GBV albums in 2012. The Unsinkable Fats Domino is kind of what you would expect from Bob, Mitch, Tobin, Kevin, and Greg after they assembled in various basements and garages around Dayton. If you were expected pure GBV gold circa 1996, you will not be disappointed.
Programming note: WORT's Wake Up Futuristic is scheduled to play another new track from Let's Go Eat The Factory as well as a never before heard b-side this week. We thought you might want to check that out.
This has been one weird day. On the same day that R.E.M. announced they were packing it in after 31 years, Guided By Voices provided some solace and frankly sheer excitement with the announcement via MOJO Music that they have recorded not one, but two new albums to be released in 2012. After hearing rumors of these recording over the summer we tried to forget we heard what we heard and hoped like hell that things would come to fruition. Well, after today's announcement we're thrilled to be able to post all the information we have on the first recordings from GBV's classic line up since 1996 brilliant, Under The Bushes Under The Stars.
On January 1st Guided By Voices will issue Lets Go Eat The Factory to mail order/internet order fans. On October 31st Rockathon/The Factory of Raw Essentials will begin taking pre-orders for the LP, that's also Bob Pollard's 54th birthday. The album will arrive in brick and mortar record shops on January 24th.
The album consists of 21 tracks recorded by the band at Tobin Sprout's home studio as well as in the homes of Mitch Mitchell and Greg Demos. The shortest track is :34 and the longest is 4:10 with writing credits going to Bob, Toby, Greg, Mitch, and Jim Pollard and Sprout takes on lead vocal duties on 6 of the albums tracks.
If that wasn't enough for us to break our collective pants it has also been reported that Guided By Voices will release a second album of new material next year titled Class Clown Spots A UFO on May 22nd, not to mention a Pollard solo LP Mouseman Cloud on March 20th.
Lets Go Eat The Factory track listing: Laundry And Lasers The Head Doughnut For A Snowman Spiderfighter Hang Mr. Kite God Loves Us The Unsinkable Fats Domino Who Invented The Sun The Big Hat And Toy Show Imperial Racehorsing How I Met My Mother Waves My Europa Chocolate Boy The Things That Never Need Either Nelson Cyclone Utilities (Remember Your Birthday) Old Bones Go Rolling Home The Room Taking Shape We Won't Apologize For The Human Race
Photo Credit: Final GBV Show, Hopscotch Music Festival, Raleigh NC 9/9/11, Daniel Coston
