It's not them. It couldn't be them. It is them!

It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It Is Them!
	Studioalbum van Guided by Voices
Uitgebracht	22 oktober 2021
Genre	indierock
Duur	41:34
Label(s)	Guided by Voices Inc.
Producent(en)	Travis Harrison
Professionele recensie
	AllMusic link; PopMatters 8 link
Chronologie
	(en) Allmusic-pagina; (en) MusicBrainz-pagina;
Portaal	Muziek

It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It Is Them! is het 34^e studioalbum van de Amerikaanse indie rockband Guided by Voices. Het album werd uitgebracht op 22 oktober 2021 en was het tweede album van de band in 2021. Travis Harrison verzorgde de productie en het afmixen.

Ontvangst bewerken

Mark Deming van AllMusic noemde het album in zijn recensie "(...) the strongest and most capable edition of GbV to date".^[1] Volgens hem is Pollard beter dan ooit in staat om kwalitatief hoogwaardig werk af te leveren. Het eerste nummer Spanish Coin vergeleek hij met de sound van psychedelische-rockzanger Arthur Lee (Love). De single My (Limited) Engagement werd door Jon Blistein van Rolling Stone een "hook-laden heavy guitar pop/rock with a soaring vocal melody" genoemd.^[2] Paul Rowe van PopMatters gaf het album een 8. Hij prees het album om zijn muzikale diversiteit; de band speelt nummers hij rekent tot de powerpop, garagerock, donkerdere rock en spoken word.^[3]

Tracklist bewerken

Alle muziek en teksten zijn geschreven door Robert Pollard.

Nr.	Titel	Duur
1.	Spanish Coin	3:20
2.	High in the Rain	3:40
3.	Dance of Gurus	2:37
4.	Flying Without a License	2:47
5.	Psycho House	2:47
6.	Maintenance Man of the Haunted House	2:43
7.	I Share a Rhythm	2:02
8.	Razor Bug	1:06
9.	I Wanna Monkey	2:49
10.	Cherub and the Great Child Actor	2:06
11.	Black and White Eyes in a Prism	4:39
12.	People Need Holes	2:43
13.	The Bell Gets Out of the Way	2:27
14.	Chain Gang Island	3:51
15.	My (Limited) Engagement	2:05

Bezetting bewerken

Robert Pollard, zang
Doug Gillard, gitaar
Bobby Bare jr., gitaar
Mark Shue, bas
Kevin March, drums

Externe links bewerken

(en) It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It Is Them! in de Guided by Voices Database
(en) It's not them. It couldn't be them. It is them! op Discogs

Bronnen, noten en/of referenties

↑ (en) Deming, mark, It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It Is Them!. AllMusic.
↑ (en) Blistein, Jon, Guided by Voices drop 'My (limited) engagement' from second 2021 LP. Rolling Stone (2 augustus 2021). Gearchiveerd op 27 november 2022.
↑ (en) Rowe, Paul, Guided by Voices thrill and boggle the mind with ‘It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It Is Them!’. PopMatters (19 oktober 2021). Gearchiveerd op 22 juni 2023.

[1] (en) Deming, mark, It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It Is Them!. AllMusic.

[2] (en) Blistein, Jon, Guided by Voices drop 'My (limited) engagement' from second 2021 LP. Rolling Stone (2 augustus 2021). Gearchiveerd op 27 november 2022.

[3] (en) Rowe, Paul, Guided by Voices thrill and boggle the mind with ‘It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It Is Them!’. PopMatters (19 oktober 2021). Gearchiveerd op 22 juni 2023.

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Leden:	Robert Pollard · Bobby Bare jr. · Doug Gillard · Mark Shue · Kevin March
Ex-leden:	Greg Demos · Nate Farley · Kevin Fennell · James Greer · Jim MacPherson · Mitch Mitchell · Chris Slusarenko · Tobin Sprout · Tim Tobias · Dan Toohey · Don Thrasher
Albums:	Devil Between My Toes (1987) · Sandbox (1987) · Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia (1989) · Same Place the Fly Got Smashed (1990) · Propeller (1992) · Vampire on Titus (1993) · Bee Thousand (1994) · Alien Lanes (1995) · Under the Bushes Under the Stars (1996) · Tonics & Twisted Chasers (1996) · Mag Earwhig! (1997) · Do the Collapse (1999) · Isolation Drills (2001) · Universal Truths and Cycles (2002) · Earthquake Glue (2003) · Half Smiles of the Decomposed (2004) · Let's Go Eat the Factory (2011) · Class Clown Spots a UFO (2012) · The Bears for Lunch (2012) · English Little League (2013) · Motivational Jumpsuit (2014) · Cool Planet (2014) · Please Be Honest (2016) · August by Cake (2017) · How Do You Spell Heaven (2017) · Space Gun (2018) · Zeppelin over China (2019) · Warp and Woof (2019) · Sweating the Plague (2019) · Surrender Your Poppy Field (2020) · Mirrored Aztec (2020) · Styles We Paid For (2020) · Earth Man Blues (2021) · It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It Is Them! (2021) · Crystal Nuns Cathedral (2022) · Tremblers and Goggles by Rank (2022) · La La Land (2023) · Welshpool Frillies (2023) · Nowhere to Go but Up (2023)
Ep's:	Forever Since Breakfast (1986) · The Grand Hour (1993) · Static Airplane Jive (1993) · Get Out of My Stations (1994) · Fast Japanese Spin Cycle (1994) · Clown Prince of the Menthol Trailer (1994) · I Am a Scientist (1994) · Tigerbomb (1995) · Sunfish Holy Breakfast (1996) · Plantations of Pale Pink (1996) · Wish in One Hand... (1997) · Plugs for the Program (1999) · Hold on Hope (2000) · Dayton, Ohio-19 Something and 5 (2000) · Daredevil Stamp Collector: Do The Collapse B-sides (2001) · The Pipe Dreams of Instant Prince Whippet (2002) · Down by the Racetrack (2013) · Wine Cork Stonehenge (2018) · 100 Dougs (2018) · 1901 Acid Rock (2019) · Umlaut Over the Ozone (2019)
Verzamelalbums:	The Best of Guided by Voices: Human Amusements at Hourly Rates (2003) · Crickets: Best of the Fading Captain Series 1999–2007 (2007) · Scalping the Guru (2022)
Boxsets:	Box (1995) · Suitcase: Failed Experiments and Trashed Aircraft (2000) · Hardcore UFOs: Revelations, Epiphanies and Fast Food in the Western Hemisphere (2003) · Suitcase 2: American Superdream Wow (2005) · Suitcase 3: Up We Go Now (2009) · Suitcase 4: Captain Kangaroo Won the War (2015)