Guided By Voices will release August By Cake on April 7th. It is the 100th that Robert Pollard has released since 1986’s Forever Since Breakfast. To put that in perspective, Bob Dylan has released roughly 39 studio albums since 1959. And that includes the Traveling Wilburys.

The new line-up includes (returning GBV veterans Doug Gillard and Kevin March, virgins Bobby Bare Jr and Mark Shue) that has been wowing audience in clubs and festivals throughout 2016. It’s the most musically adept and versatile line-up Pollard has ever assembled.

The double album is an important format in Pollard’s own musical iconography, and he doesn’t take the form lightly — one reason he’s planned and abandoned several would-be GBV double albums in the past is his high regard for foundational works like Quadrophenia, the White Album, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Daydream Nation, Zen Arcade, Double Nickels On the Dime — “defining records for these bands,” says Pollard. It’s important to him that August By Cake not just be a double album but that it be a great double album.

TOUR DATES

4/7 – St. Louis, MO – Ready Room
4/8 – Oklahoma City, OK – ACM@UCO’s Metro Music Fest, The Criterion
4/14 – Indio, CA – Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
4/15 – San Francisco, CA – Bimbo’s 365 Club
4/17 – Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge
4/18 – Seattle, WA – Nuemos
4/21 – Indio, CA – Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
4/22 – West Hollywood, CA – The Roxy Theatre
4/28 – Columbus, OH – Skully’s Music Diner
4/29 – Grand Rapids, MI – The Pyramid Scheme
5/5 – Detroit, MI – Magic Stick
5/6 – Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop

4/7 with The Brainstems
4/15 with Rogue Wave
4/18 with Sloucher
4/22 with Prism Tats
4/28 with DTCV
4/29 with Deadbeat Beat
5/5 with Bonny Doon
5/6 with Mirrors

Guided By Voices
August By Cake
Tracklisting

Side A

01 5° on the Inside.mp3
02 Generox Gray ®.mp3
03 When We All Hold Hands at the End of the World.mp3
04 Goodbye Note.mp3
05 We Liken the Sun.mp3
06 Fever Pitch.mp3
07 Absent the Man.mp3
08 Packing the Dead Zone.mp3

Side B

09 What Begins On New Year’s Day.mp3
10 Overloaded.mp3
11 Keep Me Down.mp3
12 West Coast Company Man.mp3
13 Warm Up to Religion.mp3
14 High Five Hall of Famers.mp3
15 Sudden Fiction.mp3
16 Hiking Skin.mp3

Side C

17 It’s Food.mp3
18 Cheap Buttons.mp3
19 Substitute 11.mp3
20 Chew The Sand.mp3
21 Dr Feelgood Falls Off The Ocean.mp3
22 the Laughing Closet.mp3
23 Deflect Project.mp3
24 Upon the Circus Bus.mp3

Side D
25 Try It Out (It’s Nothing).mp3
26 Sentimental Wars.mp3
27 Circus Day Holdout.mp3
28 Whole Tomatoes.mp3
29 Amusement Park Is Over.mp3
30 Golden Doors.mp3
31 The Possible Edge.mp3
32 Escape to Phoenix.mp3

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