ROBERT POLLARD
SILVERFISH TRIVIA
PROM IS COMING

UNCUT
By Alastair McKay

3 Stars

Terepestous mini-LP from Guided By Voices frontman

Pollard has never been short of ideas, and the debut release on his vanity label is crawling with them. Remove the lovely string passages (arranged by Chris George of Invert), and what remains is an EP in which his debt to English prog is fully indulged. The centerpiece is the rock-operatic "Cats Love A Parade", with lyrics which tell of growing weary "of practice and theories/of leaks and enquiry". Exciting when it sounds like The Who; less so when Pollard's deep abiding love of mid-period Genisis triumphs.