Pollard, Robert: Lord of the Birdcage (Vinyl LP)
Guided By Voices
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Vinyl LP pressing. 2011 is turning out to be quite a year for Robert Pollard. The hugely successful Guided By Voices reunion tour is doing victory laps at Pitchfork and Sasquatch festivals, a tribute album for Record Store Day and three remarkable 2011 albums by Pollard projects so far, here comes another one, with a new twist. On Lord of the Birdcage, Pollard reverses his songwriting process, transforming a dozen previously written poems into songs. He's never written in this fashion before, and his whimsical, surrealist lyrics take center stage. Smashed Middle Finger, Aspersion, Dunce Codex, Garden Smarm, You Can't Challenge Forward Progress, In a Circle, You Sold Me Quickly, The Focus (Burning), Ribbon of Fat, Silence Before Violence, Holy Fire, Ash Ript Telecopter
Vinyl LP pressing. 2011 is turning out to be quite a year for Robert Pollard. The hugely successful Guided By Voices reunion tour is doing victory laps at Pitchfork and Sasquatch festivals, a tribute album for Record Store Day and three remarkable 2011 albums by Pollard projects so far, here comes another one, with a new twist. On Lord of the Birdcage, Pollard reverses his songwriting process, transforming a dozen previously written poems into songs. He's never written in this fashion before, and his whimsical, surrealist lyrics take center stage. Smashed Middle Finger, Aspersion, Dunce Codex, Garden Smarm, You Can't Challenge Forward Progress, In a Circle, You Sold Me Quickly, The Focus (Burning), Ribbon of Fat, Silence Before Violence, Holy Fire, Ash Ript Telecopter