Surrender Your Poppy Field

Surrender Your Poppy Field
	Studioalbum van Guided by Voices
Uitgebracht	20 februari 2020
Opgenomen	Magic Door; Serious Business Music
Gemasterd	Jamal Ruhe
Genre	Indierock
Duur	38:44
Label(s)	Guided by Voices Inc.
Producent(en)	Travis Harrison
Hoesontwerp	Robert Pollard
Professionele recensie
	AllMusic Link; Exclaim! 7 Link; Slant Link
Chronologie
	(en) MusicBrainz-pagina;
Portaal	Muziek

Surrender Your Poppy Field is het 30^e studioalbum van de Amerikaanse indie rockband Guided by Voices. Het album werd uitgebracht op 20 februari 2020. Het album werd opgenomen in de studio's Magic Door en Serious Business Music. Travis Harrison verzorgde de productie. Surrender Your Poppy Field is het 6^e album sinds de heroprichting van de band in 2016.

Ontvangst

Het album werd door Mark Deming van AllMusic omschreven als afwijkend van de voorgaande vijf in die zin dat het album ruimte zoekt voor zowel de lo-fi pop die de band in de jaren 90 speelde als de progrock van later werk.^[1] Het viel Michael Joshua Rowin van Slant op dat de nummers Arthur Has Business Elsewhere, Steely Dodgers en Andre The Hawk in "waltz time" geschreven zijn en carnavalesk aandoen.^[2] Alex Whetham van Exclaim! schreef dat de band altijd klinkt alsof de muziek gemaakt wordt voor het plezier en dat Surrender Your Poppy Field daar geen verandering in brengt: "(...) if there is one facet of the group that has always been consistent, it's that they always sound like they make music for the pure joy of it. And on Surrender Your Poppy Field, this continues to work to their benefit."^[3]

Tracklist

Alle muziek en teksten zijn geschreven door Robert Pollard.

Nr.	Titel	Duur
1.	Year Of The Hard Hitter	4:02
2.	Volcano	3:06
3.	Queen Parking Lot	1:29
4.	Arthur Has Business Elsewhere	2:55
5.	Cul De Sac Kids	2:36
6.	Cat Beats a Drum	2:38
7.	Windjammer	2:40
8.	Steely Dodger	2:44
9.	Stone Cold Moron	2:31
10.	Physician	3:37
11.	Man Called Blunder	2:50
12.	Woah Nelly	1:01
13.	Andre The Hawk	2:01
14.	Always Gone	1:37
15.	Next Sea Level	3:07

Bezetting

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

Externe links

(en) Surrender Your Poppy Field in de Guided by Voices Database
(en) Surrender Your Poppy Field op Discogs

Bronnen, noten en/of referenties

↑ (en) Deming, Mark, Surrender Your Poppy Field. AllMusic.
↑ (en) Rowin, Michael Joshua, Review: Guided by Voices’s Surrender Your Poppy Field Serves Power Pop with a Twist. Slant (14 februari 2020).
↑ (en) Whetham, Alex, Guided By Voices Surrender Your Poppy Field. Exclaim! (18 februari 2020).

[1] (en) Deming, Mark, Surrender Your Poppy Field. AllMusic.

[2] (en) Rowin, Michael Joshua, Review: Guided by Voices’s Surrender Your Poppy Field Serves Power Pop with a Twist. Slant (14 februari 2020).

[3] (en) Whetham, Alex, Guided By Voices Surrender Your Poppy Field. Exclaim! (18 februari 2020).

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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) · Strut of Kings (2024)
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)