Let's Go Eat The Factory

2011, Dec 20

Apple Spotify Bandcamp Indie Rock 92 GBV Inc Pitchfork 6.9/10 A.V. Club B The Needle Drop 6/10 NME 4/5 Paste 8.4/10 Rolling Stone 3.5/5 All Music 3.5/5 Under The Radar 8.0/10 The Observer 3/5 Pop Matters 6/10 Northern Transmissions 6.9/10 The Guardian 4/5 music OMH 3.5/5 Beats Per Minute 61% Sputnikmusic 1.5/5 Uncut 6/10

Pitchfork 6.9/10 The reformed "classic-era" GBV have produced an album with the collagist careen of Bee Thousand and Propeller and but it ultimately comes up short in the songs department. The best moments come courtesy of Tobin Sprout.

A.V. Club B There are dozens of guys out there who can claim to have spent time, however brief, in Guided By Voices. But it takes only a few seconds of hearing Let’s Go Eat The Factory to recognize the exact right combination of guys who recorded the band’s most beloved records. Saying Factory deserves to be placed in the vaunted…

Rolling Stone 3.5/5 Check out our album review of Artist's Let's Go Eat the Factory on Rolling Stone.com.

Under The Radar 8.0/10 It's about time! After a 15 year hiatus, the "classic lineup" of Guided By Voices-Robert Pollard, Tobin Sprout, Mitch Mitchell, Greg Demos, and Kevin Fennell—has finally returned to the studio for its first album of new material since 1996's Under the B

The Observer 3/5 Robert Pollard has reassembled the 'classic' GVB lineup with melodic, but typically scrappy, results, writes<strong> Hermione Hoby</strong>

The Guardian 4/5 Robert Pollard's lo-fi weekend warriors are back. <strong>Maddy Costa</strong> accepts the challenge to rock