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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.
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