• Source: Styles We Paid For

      • Styles We Paid For is the 32nd studio album by American indie rock band Guided by Voices, released on December 11, 2020. The album was initially intended to be recorded only with analog technology and was entitled Before Computers, but the band had to scrap that idea due to the COVID-19 pandemic and instead assembled the recordings by sharing digital files from their respective homes. The album was preceded by the single "Mr. Child" in October and has received positive reviews from critics.


      Reception


      Editors at AllMusic rated this album 4 out of 5 stars, with critic Timothy Monger writing that it is "no slouch of a record" in spite of Guided by Voices' prodigious output and the band members "gamely readjusted their approach to suit the times and continued their hot streak with another reliably solid latter-day release" with remote collaboration during the COVID-19 pandemic. Writing for Guitar.com, Gary Walker rated Styles We Paid For a 7 out of 10, characterizing it as "restless, varied, challenging and absolutely teeming with ideas" and praising the guitar playing of Doug Gillard. A brief review in Rolling Stone rates it 3.5 out of 5 stars—between "good" and "excellent"—and calls this album "piled high with indie-rock anthems of a guy who never runs out of garage-rock kicks". The Spill Magazine's Matt Morris rated Styles We Paid For 3 out of 5, stating that the album lacks variety: "[u]nfortunately the earworms are only scattered. While nothing is bad, only a few songs truly stick out. With very little instrumental variation and few changes in tempo songs quickly start to blend into each other."


      Track listing


      All songs written by Robert Pollard

      "Megaphone Riley" – 2:06
      "They Don't Play the Drums Anymore" – 2:08
      "Slaughterhouse" – 4:32
      "Endless Seafood" – 2:58
      "Mr Child" – 3:22
      "Stops" – 2:04
      "War of the Devils" – 2:32
      "Electronic Windows to Nowhere" – 1:57
      "Never Abandon Ship" – 1:56
      "Roll Me to Heaven" – 2:16
      "In Calculus Strategem" – 2:04
      "Crash at Lake Placebo" – 2:45
      "Liquid Kid" – 3:23
      "Time Without Looking" – 1:43
      "When Growing Was Simple" – 2:31


      Personnel


      Guided by Voices

      Bobby Bare Jr. – guitar, backing vocals
      Doug Gillard – guitar, backing vocals
      Kevin March – drums, backing vocals
      Robert Pollard – lead vocals, guitar, cover art, layout
      Mark Shue – bass guitar, backing vocals
      Additional personnel

      Matt Davis – engineering
      Travis Harrison – engineer, mixing, production
      Ray Ketchem – drum engineering
      Mike Lipps – engineering
      Joe Patterson – layout
      Jeff Powell – mastering for vinyl LP edition
      Jamal Ruhe – mastering


      See also


      List of 2020 albums


      References




      External links


      Entry in the Guided by Voices Database
      Styles We Paid For at Discogs (list of releases)
      Styles We Paid For at MusicBrainz (list of releases)
      Review from Spectrum Culture
      Review from Tinnitist

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