--- product_id: 4592313 title: "Cool Planet" brand: "guided by voices" price: "£17.09" currency: GBP in_stock: false reviews_count: 11 url: https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/4592313-cool-planet store_origin: GB region: Great Britain --- # Cool Planet **Brand:** guided by voices **Price:** £17.09 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Cool Planet by guided by voices - **How much does it cost?** £17.09 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.uk](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/4592313-cool-planet) ## Best For - guided by voices enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted guided by voices brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description 2014 album from the prolific lo-fi Indie band. Recorded during the sub-freezing Polar Vortex of 2014, Cool Planet is another wineskin full of great songs to listen to, recorded in a single proper studio - Cyberteknics in Dayton, Ohio - for the first time since their inexhaustible reformation. There's some unusually consistent and consistently awesome production on Cool Planet, thanks to the array of vintage equipment on offer at Cyberteknics. ## Images ![Cool Planet - Image 1](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51TIIcsTm-L.jpg) ![Cool Planet - Image 2](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81wbrO%2ByL%2BL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Solid Record - Check it out live while you still can! *by K***R on Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2014* I've been a Guided by Voices fan since I was a little kid when a friend with some cool older brothers played Earthquake Glue for me. As a serious listener and amateur collector of all things Bob Pollard, Cool Planet is a great record. It doesn't have the pop power of Motivational Jumpsuit (which I would consider their best record since 2004's Half Smiles of the Decomposed), and some of the newness of the "reunion" may mean casual fans might end up skipping this release (a mistake), but it does have a tremendous range of songs that are full of details in a way that only GBV songs seem to be. This alone makes this a great record.Robert Pollard is undoubtedly the most prolific musician of all time. This record -- which may be GBV's 21st or 22nd (Pollard can't remember, and not even I have them all) -- is testament to that kind of work effort. It's admirable that at this point in their ~30 year career, GBV can cut a new record at all. That they can continue to churn out albums of this quality this frequently is unheard of.In Cool Planet, you get brooding low-key ballads, power pop tunes that'll be stuck in your head for weeks, and everything in between. But maybe most importantly, you get a record that shows the tremendous talent of Robert Pollard and company to put together a product that seems absolutely finished (something that some GBV releases have been missing -- particularly last year's English Little League [songs from which are almost totally absent from the current tour]) in hardly no time at all.As an amateur of Pollard records, this one shows a lot of effort went into it. Sometimes GBV can record a great record and then seemingly forget about it so they can go record the next one. This isn't one of those records. In the Cool Planet vinyl, you get lyrics, a mini collage poster print, and a heavy duty clear blue vinyl record. It feels like a completed project, a bookmark of sorts. And with a tour currently underway to support Cool Planet (as of May 2014), this is apparently an important one for the band. I saw the band in Cincinnati, and the new songs work extremely well live. If they're playing anywhere near you, you owe it to yourself -- and to the band -- to go see them as many times as possible.There are quite a few standout tracks from this record. I really love "Bad Love is Easy to Do", a catchy pop song with a nice vocal play between band members. "Table at Fool's Tooth", "Authoritarian Zoo", and "Males of Wormwood Mars" are other particularly strong tracks by Pollard on this record. There's a really strong influence of playing together as a band on this album, something that's occasionally been missing on previous releases. In addition to Bob's songs, Tobin Sprout's cuts are the best on this record they've been since "Class Clown Spots a UFO". "All American Boy" is almost a perfect Guided by Voices song, and the rest aren't far behind.Pick up a copy of this record before they run out. You'll enjoy it. Go see the tour before it's over. But don't despair if you miss out -- there's always the next one. And that's how we like it. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The final GBV album with the Classic lineup. Of course there was more on the way... *by T***N on Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2020* Like I said, last album with the Classic alien lanes and bee thousand lineup from the nineties. Of course you can't keep Bob Pollard down and he would release 20 more albums since lol(I mean that in a good way) Recommended. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Power Pop, Minus the Lo-Fi *by F***D on Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2014* GBV has put out more records over the last three years than most bands manage in 10. They stopped doing lo-fi years ago but haven't lost the loose off the cuff feel from their early days. Cool Planet and it's predecessor, Motivational Jumpsuit, should have been released as a double album. They go together like a GBV live show and ice cold keg of beer. Power pop, radio ready rock and even power ballads are all here. Had GBV been a 70s band they would have filled arenas rather than the clubs they play now. Bottom line, if you like solid rock and roll with a bit of an artsy edge, you will love this record. Pollard is at the top of his musical and lyrical game. Tobin Sprout also contributes some wildly catchy, nearly non-sensical stuff. 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