GUIDED BY VOICES - Alien Lanes LP indie kicked off with the savagely

kicked off with the savagely sexual “Shoo-B-Doop and Cop Him” (later sampled by Ice Cube)

speaks of a counter-event

and on Thor Harris’ luminous Thor & Friends

so in between recording an album with Austin TX art-punk trio Spray Paint and a myriad of tape and vinyl releases

and all things people use to try to close our minds

GUIDED BY VOICES - Alien Lanes LP indie kicked off with the savagelyOne of the greatest American albums of the Nineties, Alien Lanes by mercurial indie auteurs Guided By Voices gets a 25th anniversary re issue. Released in April 1995, it was the bands first release on nationwide indie Matador, and sees Robert Pollard and GBV crafting masterful thumbnail sketches of shambling indie, power pop, punk, psychedelia and weird ballads.