THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Universe Room is the 18th Guided By Voices album in 10 years, and packs a vast mix of energy levels and sounds into 17 diverse tracks that last less than 40 minutes. The new record ventures into truly surprising territory, where barely any song segments and choruses are revisited and fidelity daringly shifts between lo-fi and hi-fi.
“I wanted to create, hopefully, an experience, kind of a wild ride, where the listener would want to hear it multiple times in order to grasp all the sections and fields of sound to discover something new with each listen,” says singer, songwriter, chief cook and bottle washer Robert Pollard. “I trimmed down the songs so that there wasn’t a lot of repetition, so you get a lot of sections that happen only once or twice.”
Universe Room embodies a realm of new horizons for Guided By Voices, who continue to redefine and expand as they blast off to unpredictable sonic and lyrical worlds.”
