Force Fields at Home

Teenage Guitar - "Force Fields at Home" (2013) - Gbv Inc.

Oh Boy Friends,

We got a weird one going tonight.  

Teenage Guitar is the name given to Bob Pollard's latest lo-fi project and according to the record's press release:

"Teenage Guitar offers experiments in spontaneity and lo-fi witchiness and wizardry, exploring multiple moods and styles."

Low-fi Witchiness & Wizardry? I'll say.  

Its not that its terrible, its just really scattered & underdeveloped (even by Guided By Voices' standards).  Some of it sounds like the songs have never been rehearsed.  Some of it sounds like its being recorded in a tin can.  Most of it sounds like late night bedroom demo recordings of early Who songs. When you look at it this way, I guess the name Teenage Guitar is apropos.

Still, Side Two's "Atlantic Cod" is pretty goddamn amazing. 

RATING: 3.5 Postcards to Pinky (wish you were there) out of 5