Guided by Voices - Mirrored Aztec Reprise

Guided by Voices - Mirrored Aztec RepriseWhen we last heard from Guided by Voices, they had released an astonishing four albums in just over 12 months. Each has a distinctive creative identity: Zeppelin Over China was a meat and potatoes double album, Warp And Woof was a return to the band's low fidelity roots and under two minute earworms, Sweating The Plague was a slice of moody stadium rock, and Surrender Your Poppy Field was an unpredictable grab bag of all of the above. After venturing

the sonic signatures of the lineup that took …Like Clockwork around the world and back are as unmistakable as ever

Sonderlust emerged as a direct result of this personal struggle taking place at an artistic crossroads

La Luz chose to leave in any happy accidents and spur-of-the-moment flourishes that occurred while recording

"This is all music I generated

adminis- tration's constant talk of walls and bans

17 Purple Rain

The Original 1976 Album - the notorious 'Last Ever Iggy & the Stooges Show'

Vampire Weekend's organ-and-drum runs highlight narratives about relationships

There's not a "plan" with '68 so much as a ride

when the trio reconvened with their families in tow in upstate New York

With sounds ranging from ghostly electric guitar shimmers

to established tastemakers like Damon Albarn