Robert Pollard Channels Country in ‘I Killed a Man Who Looks Like You’
Robert Pollard is back, and this time, the prolific Guided By Voices leader evokes the spirit of Western music on his new album, Honey Locust Honky Tonk. On “I Killed a Man Who Looks Like You,” Pollard shapes a somber tale of a ghost singing to himself in the mirror with shimmering, deliberate guitar strums and country’s storytelling power.
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“Honey Locust Honky Tonk is supposed to be a mock country album even though it’s not country, although it is a little more straightforward than albums I typically make,” Pollard tells Rolling Stone. “I was going to use a pseudonym – Cash Rivers.”
Honey Locust Honky Tonk will be out July 1st worldwide and July 9th in North America.