Space Gun (album)

Space Gun

Studio album by

Guided by Voices

Released

March 23, 2018

Studio

Serious Business Music in Brooklyn, New York and The Stillwater River Lodge in Dayton, Ohio

Genre

Indie rock^[1]

Length

38:55

Label

Rockathon Records
Guided By Voices, Inc.

Guided by Voices chronology

How Do You Spell Heaven
(2017)

Space Gun
(2018)

Zeppelin Over China
(2019)

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	77/100^[2]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Exclaim!	7/10^[3]
PopMatters	7/10^[4]
The Skinny	^[5]
Under the Radar	7/10^[6]

Space Gun is the 26th studio album by American indie rock band Guided by Voices. It was released on March 23, 2018 under Guided by Voices, Inc.^[7]^[8]

This album was recorded and mixed by Travis Harrison at Serious Business Music, NY, and Stillwater River Lodge^[9]

Critical reception

Space Gun was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 77, based on 12 reviews.^[2] Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 72 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 14 reviews.^[10]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Robert Pollard

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Space Gun"	4:18
2.	"Colonel Paper"	1:59
3.	"King Flute"	1:22
4.	"Ark Technician"	2:18
5.	"See My Field"	2:47
6.	"Liars' Box"	2:49
7.	"Blink Blank"	3:25
8.	"Daily Get-Ups"	1:35
9.	"Hudson Rake"	1:44
10.	"Sport Component National"	2:48
11.	"I Love Kangaroos"	3:07
12.	"Gray Spat Matters"	1:28
13.	"That's Good"	3:15
14.	"Flight Advantage"	2:23
15.	"Evolution Circus"	3:36
Total length:		38:55

Personnel

Robert Pollard – lead and backing vocals
Doug Gillard – guitar, backing vocals on "Sport Component National"
Bobby Bare Jr. – guitar
Mark Shue – bass guitar, backing vocals on "Sport Component National"
Kevin March – drums

References

^ ^a ^b Deming, Mark. "Space Gun - Guided by Voices - Songs, Reviews, Credits - AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Space Gun by Guided by Voices". Metacritic. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
^ Shiblaq, Ayla (March 19, 2018). "Exclaim! Review". Exclaim!. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
^ Garratt, John (March 23, 2018). "Guided by Voices, the Band That (Almost) Never Sleeps Gives Us One 2018 Album". PopMatters. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
^ Drever, Ryan (March 20, 2018). "the Skinny Review". The Skinny. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
^ Rushbury, Ian (March 27, 2018). "Under the Radar Review". Under the Radar. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
^ Scahtz, Lake (December 9, 2017). "Guided By Voices announce new album, Space Gun, share the title track". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
^ Thiessen, Brock (December 8, 2017). "Guided By Voices Announce New Album 'Space Gun'". Exclaim!. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
^ "GBVDB - Space Gun". GBVDB.
^ "Album of the Year Review". Album of the Year. Retrieved February 22, 2024.

v t e Guided by Voices
Robert Pollard Doug Gillard Mark Shue Bobby Bare Jr. Kevin March Tobin Sprout Mitch Mitchell Greg Demos Kevin Fennell Jim Macpherson James Greer Discography
Studio 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 (2012) 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)
EPs	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 (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)
Live albums	Live from Austin, TX (2007)
Compilation albums	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)
Box sets	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)
Robert Pollard solo albums	Not in My Airforce (1996) Waved Out (1998) Kid Marine (1999) Motel of Fools (2003) Fiction Man (2004) Relaxation of the Asshole (2005) From a Compound Eye (2006) Normal Happiness (2006) Silverfish Trivia (2007) Standard Gargoyle Decisions (2007) Coast to Coast Carpet of Love (2007) Superman Was a Rocker (2008) Weatherman and Skin Goddess (2008) Robert Pollard Is Off to Business (2008) The Crawling Distance (2009) Elephant Jokes (2009) We All Got Out of the Army (2010) Moses on a Snail (2010) Space City Kicks (2011) Lord of the Birdcage (2011) Mouseman Cloud (2012) Jack Sells the Cow (2012) Honey Locust Honky Tonk (2013) Blazing Gentlemen (2013) Faulty Superheroes (2015) Of Course You Are (2016)
Tobin Sprout albums	Carnival Boy (1996) Moonflower Plastic (1997) Let's Welcome the Circus People (1999) Lost Planets & Phantom Voices (2003) The Bluebirds of Happiness Tried to Land on My Shoulder (2010) The Universe & Me (2017)
Airport 5 albums	Tower in the Fountain of Sparks (2001) Life Starts Here (2002)
Boston Spaceships albums	Brown Submarine (2008) The Planets are Blasted (2009) Zero to 99 (2009) Our Cubehouse Still Rocks (2010) Let It Beard (2011)
Lifeguards and Doug Gillard albums	Speak Kindly of Your Volunteer Fire Department (1999) Mist King Urth (2003) Waving at the Astronauts (2011)
Robert Pollard side projects	In Shop We Build Electric Chairs: Professional Music by Nightwalker 1984–1993 (1999) Big Trouble (2000) Choreographed Man of War (2001) Calling Zero (2002) Blues and Boogie Shoes (2006)
Circus Devils albums	Ringworm Interiors (2001) The Harold Pig Memorial (2002) Pinball Mars (2004) Five (2005) Sgt. Disco (2007) Ataxia (2008) Gringo (2009) Mother Skinny (2010) Capsized! (2011) When Machines Attack (2013) My Mind Has Seen the White Trick (2013) Escape (2014) Stomping Grounds (2015) Laughs Last (2017)