0125. Guided By Voices
Alien Lanes
Lo-fi band Guided By voices with their eight full-length album and the intro of the first track, Salty Salute, starts with a real sweet beat, which brings my mind into places where Eels and Portishead get their inspiration, but sadly it rapidly devolves into what it sounds like when some guy records outlines for songs on his cassette player.
(and here I'll leave a bit of space for you to infer that "that's the whole point of being 'lo-fi', you stupid megalomaniac - you're not supposed to sound like you care what it sounds like" or something equally pretentious)
(done? okay, let's continue)
With twenty-eight tracks over the span of 41 minutes it's not very detailed outlines either, even though towards the middle some of it actually starts to sound like actual songs, and the twelfth through fifteenth tracks remind me of old sixties brit-pop recordings, while Always Crush Me gives connotations to Swedish seventies act Philemon Arthur & The Dung in it's naïve approach to how to play music (and thus livens it up for me).
Honestly I don't see why this would be on a top one-thousand-and-one-list, but I understand why some might like it.
