Universe Room Soul If you listen on a

If you listen on a good set of speakers or good headphones

C3    Seasons

by Bob Simpson

the album covers a lot of ground that one would expect from Earle -- troubles with women ("This Is How It Ends" and "Lookin' for a Woman")

fully formed

Universe Room Soul If you listen on aDescription Universe Room is the eighteenth Guided by Voices album in ten years and packs a vast mix of energy levels and sounds into seventeen diverse tracks in less than forty minutes. The new record ventures into truly surprising territory, where barely any song segments and choruses are revisited and fidelity daringly shifts between lo fi and hi fi. "I wanted to create, hopefully, an experience, kind of a wild ride, where the listener would want