Album Info

Let It Beard

Rock - 2011

Since retiring the Guided By Voices franchise, Robert Pollard has been even more prolific with solo albums and collaborations such... more

Tracklist

1

Blind 20-20

3:02 min
2

Juggernaut vs. Monolith

1:12 min
3

Tourist U.F.O.

4:17 min
4

Minefield Searcher

2:16 min
5

Make a Record for Lo-life

3:02 min
6

Let More Light In the House

5:09 min
7

You Just Can't Tell

2:01 min
8

Chevy Marigold

2:18 min
9

Earmarked for Collision

3:45 min
10

Toppings Take the Cake

1:09 min
11

Tabby and Lucy

3:28 min
12

(I'll Make It) Strong for You

1:56 min
13

A Hair In Every Square Inch of the House

4:45 min
14

The Ballad of Bad Whiskey

2:17 min
15

I Took On the London Guys

2:39 min
16

Red Bodies

2:53 min
17

A Dozen Blue Overcoats

1:28 min
18

Pincushion

1:14 min
19

Christmas Girl

2:47 min
20

Let It Beard

4:13 min
21

The Vicelords

3:26 min
22

German Field of Shadows

3:32 min
23

Speed Bumps

2:16 min
24

No Steamboats

2:38 min
25

You In My Prayer

2:29 min
26

Inspiration Points

5:23 min

About Let It Beard

Since retiring the Guided By Voices franchise, Robert Pollard has been even more prolific with solo albums and collaborations such as Circus Devils, Keane Brothers, Lifeguards and Boston Spaceships, his recording enterprise with the Decemberists’ John Moen and the Takeovers’ Chris Slusarenko. Let It Beard is unlike many of his post-GBV albums. Where those records have largely been concise and quick on the ears, Let It Beard is a 26-track, 70-minute opus. As always, the four Ps — power, pop, punk and prog — are in evidence. “Juggernaut vs. Monolith” may be a brief jag, but tracks such as “Make a Record For Lo-Life,” “Let More Light In the House” and “A Hair In Every Square Inch of the House” are fully worked-out tracks. Guests such as Mick Collins of the Dirtbombs, J. Mascis of Dinosaur Jr., Colin Newman of Wire and Steve Wynn of the Dream Syndicate add extra color and have apparently encouraged Pollard to bring his A-game.