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內容簡介 Vinyl LP pressing. 2017 release from the uber-prolific Robert Pollard and his main day job, Guided By Voices. Guided by Voices is on a roll. One could argue that GBV is never not on a roll, that Robert Pollard’s output plows past the word "prolific " like prolific is standing still in a snowbank; and that’s true, but this new version of the band (Doug Gillard, Bobby Bare Jr, Mark Shue, Kevin March) has given Pollard new tools to complement his song-hammer. Thus, ergo, quod erat demonstrandum: roll. Hot on the heels of the smothered-in-plaudits double album August By Cake comes this hot and heavy fifteen-tune long player, a melody-dense thwack to the earholes that will both energize and deplete your body of it’s remaining music-appreciation enzymes. Recorded by the band in New York, and by Pollard in Ohio, How Do You Spell Heaven capitalizes on the current incarnation’s tour-buffed shine without sacrificing eternal verities such as but not limited to: off-kilter rhythmic jolts; krazy chords; purposefully imperfect harmonies; and fragmented structures that start and stop on a coin of small denomination and go somewhere else, and quickly. There’s more, much more-the easiest, laziest way to sum up this latest album is the most obvious: How do you spell heaven? Shout it from the rafters: G-B-V!TracklistA1. The Birthday Democrats 2:30A2. King 007 2:51A3. Boy W 2:34A4. Steppenwolf Mausoleum 3:22A5. Cretinous Number Ones 1:45A6. They Fall Silent 0:55A7. Diver Dan 2:04A8. How To Murder A Man In 3 Acts 2:43B1. Pearly Gates Smoke Machine 4:02B2. Tenth Century 2:37B3. How Do You Spell Heaven 1:53B4. Paper Cutz 2:36B5. Low Flying Perfection 2:37B6. Nothing Gets You Real 2:24B7. Just to Show You 2:17"