Among the many myriad aspect tasks that spin about Robert Pollard’s seemingly boundless private orbit, Rip Van Winkle is a little bit of a garage-punk outlier.
Three of its members—drummer Jason Quick, bassist Joe Patterson and guitarist Ben Penry—took Guided By Voices as their inspiration after they fashioned Joseph Airport. Lacking is that group’s singer, Matthew Cutter, who additionally wrote Nearer You Are, a 2018 Pollard biography. However then, after all, Rip Van Winkle’s fourth member is the esteemed Mr. GBV himself.
We’re proud to premiere “By The Water,” the lead single from Blasphemy (Splendid Analysis), Rip Van Winkle’s debut LP. It’s accessible as we speak through Rockathon.
Additionally search for the limited-to-1,500, vinyl-only reside album Goodnight El Dorado on July 11, that includes Guided By Voices performances from three 2024 reveals in Woodstock, Indianapolis and Dallas. Represented on the eight-track “bootleg” are songs from 2019’s Sweating The Plague, 2022’s Tremblers And Goggles By Rank and 2023’s Nowhere To Go However Up. See full observe record under.
—Hobart Rowland
Goodnight El Dorado
1) “Jack Of Legs”
2) “Sons Of The Beard”
3) “Alex Bell”
4) “How Did He Get Up There?”
5) “For The Residence”
6) “Boomerang”
7) “Unfun Glitz”
8) “Who Desires To Go Looking”
