Brenna Ehrlich
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Guided by Voices ready another release. Sarah Zade Pollard* While working on Guided by Voices‘ 44th studio album, Speculation and Gossip, frontman Robert Pollard developed an obsession with Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. “[I watched it] over and over,” he says. “I’ve almost learned the dialog like Rocky Horror Picture Show.” The record drops January 22 via the band’s Rockathon Records.
Pollard has also been immersed in surrealism and dada, fitting genres for a musician and visual artist who has a knack for bending words and images to his will — either via hallucinatory lyrics or collages that mesh realms both physical and meta.
The first single off of the new album, “Designed for Use,” is a barreling, muscled track that turns a piece of mundane packaging copy into a motto: Pollard was designed to be a musician, to play “in most stereophonic atmospheres.”
