#1006 Guided by Voices - The Bears for Lunch

Guided by Voices, all cleaned up: studio-quality sound and normal song lengths abound. There's still some hooky moments here, but for every She Lives in an Airport, there's two Hangover Childs, just churning in place with nowhere to go, hanging out for a couple minutes past their welcome and then ending with a whimper. The production makes for some interesting textures, and most of the songs are built on buzz like tiny Lo La Tengos, but there's little excitement in the moment and little that you'll remember once its over 2.5/5