Please Be Honest

Not good since the 90's

Bobs right. It sounds like a GBV album. Give it a number of listens and this one grabs you the same way Cool Planet did. Only a genius can create a song like Glittering Parliaments. I dig it all.

Even if he was the only writer, composer and musician on this album, this effort seems like he had a bunch of songs laying around and decided to stick them all on one album and put it out so GBV fans would buy it so he can make some extra cash. That is hard for me to say as a huge lifelong GBV fan but that is the reality. Uncle Bob is not a good musician and it shows on this album. Even in the days of Vampire on Titus or Alien Lanes the talent of the musicians was not great, it still produced a cutting edge sound. This album seems to want to throw back to those years but the music is so disjointed and garbled that its not a throw back to those years, its more like a sloppy effort of someone just learning how to play. Pollard is a lyrical craftsman and uncanny songwriter, but this effort just seems lazy, thrown together and just.....tired. It pains me to see my rock legend hero fail so miserably on this album, save for a couple of listenable tunes, bu tthat is the fate of this 22nd GBV album. If this is what is to become of GBV going forward, it would have been better for GBV to stay dead than resurrected into this current shell of its former self. Instead of this, pick up the latest Circus Devils or Ricked Wicky as those are two glorious examples of the type of artist Bob Pollard really is.