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- f. 1985, Dayton, OH, USA
- Alternative Pop-Rock, Indie Rock
Universal Truths and Cycles
/ June the 18th, 2002 /
Matador (-) 
Wire
Greyhounds // Skin Pararde // Zap //
Christian Animation Torch Carriers // Cheyenne //
The Weeping Bogeyman // Back to the Lake // Love 1
// Storm Vibrations // Factory of Raw Essentials
// Everywhere with Helicopter // Pretty Bombs //
Eureka Signs // Wings of Thorn // Car Language // From a
Voice Plantation // The Ids Are Alright // Universal Truths
and Cycles // Father Sgt. Christmas Card
- After their more or less unsuccessful outing
to the major label TVT, Guided
by Voices return to Matador and with their new LP Universal Truths and
Cycles they set a new remarkable highlight for themselves and their loyal
fans.
Indeed the album has got some awesome highlights that are rather known from former Guided
by Voices albums like their 94-breakthrough Bee
Thousand. Songs like "Back to the Lake" including the
breaking and rhythm-giving piano or the forward moving and kind of
mechanic sounding "Skin Parade" are unequivocally some of the
album's best stuff. With its sometimes cranky production this album
reminds more and more of GBV's old Indie and Lo-Fi-days.
Therefore, some might say that Universal
Truths and Cycles is the band's best album up to date but in the opposite Pollard seems to set himself a deadline to compose much more Pop songs that can appear in the charts, songs that include more transparent structures - but always without leaving Indie. So this fact does not mean that Universal Truths and Cycles is not a great album. It is but at last it is not their best.
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- Copyright © 2002 Dennis Vihar. All Rights Reserved.
Date: 06. Jan 05
