Universe Room | Retro Vinyl Club

DescriptionUniverse Room is the eighteenth Guided by Voices album in ten years and packs a vast mix of energy levels and sounds into seventeen diverse tracks in less than forty 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 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 worlds. Tracks1 1. Driving Time2 2. I Couldn't See the Light3 3. I Will Be a Monk4 4. the Great Man5 5. Clearly Aware6 6. Dawn Believes7 7. Play Shadows8 8. Fly Religion9 9. the Well Known Soldier10 10. Hers Purple11 11. Independent Animal12 12. 19th Man to Fly An Airplane13 13. Elfin Flower with Knees14 14. Francisco15 15. Aluminum Stingray Girl16 16. Aesop Dreamed of Lions17 17. Everybody's a Star

• Format: CD
• Released: 02/07/2025