Please Be Honest

Rock · 2016 · 15 tracks · 33m

Please Be Honest

Guided by Voices

A singular, isolationist effort where Robert Pollard plays every instrument. Clattering, murky, and deeply surreal lo-fi rock that feels like a private transmission.

It's Robert Pollard in a basement playing everything at once, and it's as weird and brilliant as that sounds.

A restless and surreal exploration of isolation, captured through clattering, home-recorded rock vignettes.

Please Be Honest · vs · Guided by Voices

Mysterious+1.3σ

Mysterious saturates this record notably more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 15 Tracks · 33m

01

My Zodiac Companion

2:12

02

Kid on a Ladder

1:47

03

Come on Mr. Christian

2:04

04

The Grasshopper Eaters

3:22

05

Glittering Parliaments

2:27

06

The Caterpillar Workforce

1:28

07

Sad Baby Eyes

0:35

08

The Quickers Arrive

2:55

09

Hotel X (Big Soap)

3:01

10

I Think a Telescope

2:30

11

Please Be Honest

2:05

12

Nightmare Jamboree

2:00

13

Unfinished Business

1:30

14

Defeatist’s Lament

2:23

15

Eye Shop Heaven

3:00

Moments Worth Waiting For

the sudden shift from the melodic hook of My Zodiac Companion into the clattering, discordant percussion of the bridge

the haunting, skeletal acoustic strumming on the title track that feels like a private confession caught on tape

the way Hotel X (Big Soap) dissolves into a murky, psychedelic haze of distorted guitars and muffled vocals

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