Sweating the Plague

Thirty-four years after their first lineup came together, Guided by Voices are once again a band making albums to look forward to -- guitar-heavy exercises in proggy-pop goodness that are smart and satisfying, ranking with the best recorded work of their career.

Eight years, five EPs and 13 LPs since their reformation, it's no longer surprising to witness Guided by Voices put out so much music so con...

Many of the album’s best moments find the band in near-prog terrain.

While April's Warp and Woof thrived through its open embrace of a punk rock philosophy, its grime-saturated collage of sporadic low-fi gemstones a...