I just got finished reading that U2 is ΓÇ£going back to basics.ΓÇ¥ And as is natural, the pendulum swings both ways. Guided By Voices, the lo-fi ΓÇ£back to basicsΓÇ¥ band favored by dork-boy critics the world over, has actually gone HI-FI, hooking up with the CarsΓÇÖ Ric Ocasek. I fearlessly predict winter will be colder than summer next year!
And there's something to be said for dependability, predictability, and other measures of conservative judgment. GBV's Bob Pollard writes a hundred songs a month and every once in a while one sticks, and while no one (yet) has given him a weekly TV show to peddle his latest, at least he manages to put out albums more frequently than the blokes in U2.
Do The Collapse is a forever-shifting lineup of guys backing Mr. Pollard, and the upgrade in sound offers welcome variety. If you like bands such as Big Star, the Raspberries, the Beatles, Badfinger, even--what the heck--the Cars, you'll find at least a handful of tracks to hum on the way home from work. And then you'll realize: work sucks!
