Guided By Voices - Same Place The Fly Got SmashedOriginally released in 1990, Same Place The Fly Got Smashed was Guided By Voices fourth album in as many years. Roughly a concept album about an alcoholic named Joker Bob who goes on a bender, someone dies, and Bob gets the chair (the electrifying conclusion). From the moment the needle drops, the listener is served notice that this isnt going to be an easy listen, as an argument taped off of a TV cuts to a basement recording of a lone, blaring

which was released earlier this month

great fires and mushroom clouds

who he records at his own place in West Kirby

Available on limited "UK Day Trippin'" clear vinyl

In the early 1970s Lee Jr

Repetition plays a key role: the band “initially wanted the record to sound circular

Alan Horne recorded everything from their Northern Soul inspired instrumental opener

said that Four- Calendar Caf was "the most poignant

Produced by Steve Albini and originally released in May 1993

Tony Joe White - Alone At Last

all of which are carried by Émilie’s tender yet quietly soaring vocals

like seed to flower