Guided By Voices Bears For Lunch CD

2012 release, the third album this year from the prolific and recently reunited indie band. This is their third album of 2012, in case you had lost count. Many bands struggle to release three albums in their career, never mind three in one year. Let's Go Eat the Factory and Class Clown Spots a UFO garnered four-star reviews and amen's from the faithful. The Bears for Lunch might top them both. From the opening track, 'King Arthur the Red,' with it's full-throated riffs, slam-tastic drums and even some show-off lead guitar shredding, it's evident that GBV Mach II may just now be hitting it's stride. The progression is not dissimilar to the one the band made from Alien Lanes to it's 1996 high-water mark Under the Bushes, Under the Stars, both in terms of longer, more fleshed-out songs and a semi-pro approach (so to speak) to recording fidelity.

1. King Arthur the Red 2. The Corners Are Glowing 3. Have a Jug 4. Hangover Child 5. Dome Rust 6. Finger Gang 7. The Challenge Is Much More 8. Waving at Airplanes 9. The Military School Dance Dismissal 10. White Flag 11. Skin to Skin Combat 12. She Lives in An Airport 13. Tree Fly Jet 14. Walking Up the Stars 15. Up Instead of Running 16. Smoggy Boy 17. Amorphous Surprise 18. You Can Fly Anything Right 19. Everywhere Is Miles from Everywhere