Pollard,Robert Space City Kicks CD

2011 release from the prolific Indie Rock singer/songwriter and former leader of Guided By Voices. Seems like all anyone wants to talk about these days is the GBV reunion tour. It is pretty amazing to see the guys back together, a little older, seemingly no wiser: The way you dreamed it would be, if you dreamed about '90s-era Indie Rock bands reuniting. Don't imagine, though, that it's the only magic trick Robert Pollard has in his scientific box. Space City Kicks, an 18 song compendium of Bee Thousand-sized sonic chunks that range from noisy pop to poppy noise but mostly just R-O-C-K. Except the ballads, which are melancholy in a way Dwight Twilley never was, making it a mystery why Pollard posed for a recent promo picture with what is clearly Twilley's guitar (and Rod Stewart's Vans, but that makes perfect sense).

1. Mr Fantastic Must Die 2. Space City Kicks 3. Blowing Like a Sunspot 4. I Wanna Be Your Man in the Moon 5. Sex She Said 6. One More Touch 7. Picture a Star 8. Something Strawberry 9. Follow a Loser 10. Children Ships 11. Stay Away 12. Gone Hoping 13. Into It 14. Tired Life 15. Touch Me in the Right Place at the Right Time 16. Woman to Fly 17. Getting Going 18. Spill the Blues