Guided by Voices released three albums in 2019, and one week into 2020 they've just announced a new one, titled Surrender Your Poppy Field, that will be out February 20 via GBV Inc. “I did a five-song EP about four or five years ago under the name Sunflower Logic and we included a mock catalog for the label name we used, Pink Banana Records," Robert Pollard told Rolling Stone. "In it there are 50 or 60 fake band names with titles for 45s, EPs albums and compilations and one of the songs was ‘Surrender Your Poppy Field.’ It stuck and I decided to give it a real home on a Guided by Voices album." You can listen to warm and fuzzy first single "Volcano" below.
Meanwhile, GBV rang in 2020 in Los Angeles where they played an even more marathon show than usual, performing a four-hour-plus, 100-song set. Pollard told Rolling Stone that they just powered through it, despite his "bum hip" and voice both threatening to give out. "We just kept going toward the finish line. At about the four-hour mark I felt like I might throw up from lack of air and overexerting the diaphragm. But I made it and everyone seemed to have a good time.” You can check out their New Year's Eve setlist, and a few videos from the show, below.
Bob and the rest of the band will be back on on the road this spring, with dates in Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Bethlehem, New Haven, Atlanta, Carrboro, San Luis Obispo, San Francisco, and Minneapolis. All dates are listed below.
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Guided by Voices - 2020 Tour Dates Fri 4/3 - Ottobar - Baltimore, MD Sat 4/4 - Mr. Smalls - Pittsburgh, PA Fri 4/24 - Musikfest Cafe - Bethlehem, PA Sat 4/25 - College Street Music Hall - New Haven, CT Fri 5/1 - Shaky Knees Festival - Atlanta, GA Sat 5/2 - Cat’s Cradle - Carrboro, NC Fri 5/8 - Fremont Theater - San Luis Obispo, CA Sat 5/9 - The Regency - San Francisco, CA Fri 7/10 - Fine Line Music Hall - Minneapolis, MN
SETLIST: Guided By Voices @ Teragram Ballroom, Los Angeles 1/31/2019 (via) Street Party Holy Rhythm Cigarette Tricks As We Go Up, We Go Down Dead Liquor Store Sons of the Beard Downer Cut-Out Witch Some Drilling Implied Twilight Campfighter End It With Light Charmless Peters The Rally Boys Shocker in Gloomtown I'm A Strong Lion (Robert Pollard song) Your Cricket Is Rather Unique See My Field Chasing Heather Crazy Tenth Century A Salty Salute Hot Freaks Good Morning Sir Step of the Wave Hudson Rake My Angel Tractor Rape Chain King 007 Motor Away Now to War Jane of the Waking Universe Ego Central High Cool Jewels And Aprons Unleashed! The Large Hearted Boy Cobbler Ditches My Future in Barcelona Exit Flagger She Wants to Know Drinker's Peace Space Gun Please Be Honest Unfun Glitz Yours to Keep Echos Myron West Coast Company Man Warm Up to Religion And I Don't (So Now I Do) (Robert Pollard song) The Best of Jill Hives Everybody Thinks I'm a Raincloud (When I'm Not Looking) Whiskey Ships (Robert Pollard song) Closer You Are Jam Warsong Littlest League Possible Choking Tara Cohesive Scoops Lethargy The Very Second My Son Cool I Am a Tree Bury the Mouse Gold Star for Robot Boy My Zodiac Companion Weed King Liar's Tale Your Lights Are Out Wrong Turn On My Dog Surprise Demons Are Real Lord of Overstock Cheap Buttons Time Remains In Central Position Peep-Hole Matter Eater Lad Immortals Little Lines Hey Aardvark My Kind of Soldier Back to the Lake Things I Will Keep My Valuable Hunting Knife Cold Cold Hands Coming Back From Now On Your Name Is Wild The Official Ironmen Rally Song Thimble Society Fair Touching My Wrestling Days Are Over Blue Jay House Teenage FBI Tropical Robots Heavy Like The World You Own the Night The Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory Smothered in Hugs Skills Like This Town of Mirrors (Robert Pollard song) Pimple Zoo Game Of Pricks I Am a Scientist Don't Stop Now Glad Girls
