Given every guitar band since crica 1965 owes a debt – stated or otherwise – to the usual scouse suspects beginning with “B”, you might think that the format has scraped right through the bottom of the barrel by now. But creativity is a weird old thing. Stick a load of the obvious Guided By Voices influences into AI and yeah, you’ll likely get some hackneyed pale imitation of rock music from the past 60-odd years. Which is what most modern guitar bands are doing, to be fair. But something uncanny seems to happen when those same influences are filtered through Bob Pollard’s brain. There’s suddenly something fresh melodically, even now after 42 albums and over 500 songs. It’s like you’ve been eating the same dad rock sandwich for years and suddenly someone’s…

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