{"id":133901,"date":"2025-05-26T18:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T18:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/133901\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T18:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T18:26:11","slug":"guided-by-voices-respond-to-break-up-rumours-by-announcing-42nd-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/133901\/","title":{"rendered":"Guided By Voices respond to break-up rumours by announcing 42nd album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/guided-by-voices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guided By Voices<\/a> have responded to rumours that they are breaking up by announcing their second album of the year and 42nd in total.<\/p>\n<p>It is only three months since the Dayton, Ohio indie rock veterans released \u2018Universe Room\u2019, the 41st full-length of their four-decade career, but\u00a0shortly after fans started to speculate that the end may be near for the group last week, news arrived of \u2018Thick Rich And Delicious\u2019, which will be out on October 31.<\/p>\n<p>The break-up rumours appeared to stem from an interview given by guitarist Bobby Bare Jr. to the Raw Impressions podcast, hosted by Lou Barlow of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/dinosaur-jr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dinosaur Jr.<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/sebadoh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sebadoh<\/a>, and his wife Adelle. Watch the whole interview below.<\/p>\n<p>When Adelle mentioned that she had never been to a Guided By Voices live show, Bare replied: \u201cWe\u2019re breaking up. You will never [go to a show]. It\u2019s over. We\u2019re never playing again.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>However, it now seems that the \u201cbreaking up\u201d that Bare was referring to was his internet connection during the interview, with Adelle later telling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynvegan.com\/guided-by-voices-are-breaking-up-and-never-going-to-play-again-according-to-bobby-bare-jr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brooklyn Vegan<\/a> that they were experiencing \u201ca lot of technical difficulties during the podcast episode\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Bare\u2019s assertion that they will not be playing any more gigs in the foreseeable future, however, would seem to be accurate. \u201cMy understanding is that they didn\u2019t have plans to play more live shows,\u201d Adelle added. \u201cBut I think they are still recording!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Robert Pollard\u2019s band released a steady stream of albums between their 1987 debut \u2018Devil Between My Toes\u2019 and 2004\u2019s \u2018Half Smiles Of The Decomposed\u2019. They split that year, and after being active again from 2010 to 2014, they reformed in 2016, with Bare joining alongside bassist Mark Shue.<\/p>\n<p>Their turnover has been faster than ever since then, with \u2018Thick Rich And Delicious\u2019 set to be their 20th album in less than 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guided By Voices have responded to rumours that they are breaking up by announcing their second album of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,481,269,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-133901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-indie","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114575545674321227","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}