![]() Jar of Jam Ton of Bricks was written and recorded in collaboration with Richard Davies of the Moles and Cardinal, and while his approach has clearly rubbed off on Pollard, the often spare and slightly trippy tone of these 14 songs stakes out a territory separate from Pollard's revved-up smart pop and Davies' more polished and Baroque approach. What's surprising about the first album from Pollard's latest side project, Cosmos, is that for a change it doesn't sound all that much like a typical Robert Pollard album. They were originally released on vinyl only on various invented record labels in pressings of 300 to 1000 copies.īox also includes a fifth disc, King Shit and the Golden Boys, material on which is an equal division of the best Bee Thousand outtakes and the best tracks from the lost "shit-canned" albums Back to Saturn X and Learning to Hunt.Robert Pollard has a clearly defined sound and style as a songwriter, and as a consequence, nearly everything he does carries his recognizable creative stamp, whether it's his solo work, his albums with Guided by Voices, or his increasingly large number of post-GBV projects such as Boston Spaceships and the Keene Brothers. Each is different in character, but all are quite recognizably GBV. The biggest change is a switch from five digipaks to three jewel boxes.īox compiles the first four Guided By Voices albums, namely Devil Between My Toes, Sandbox, Self Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia, and Same Place the Fly Got Smashed. Nothing from the original pressing has been lost, aside from poor-quality upside-down scans. The art has been redone out of necessity, but any visual changes are minor. It contains the same music, still contains five discs, and has pretty much the same art on the slipcase. ***The question about The Guided by Voices Box is always, "Is it different than the original?" Yes and no. ![]()
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