Pitchfork

[Posted Friday, September 19th, 2003 06:00:00 Pitchfork Central Time]

Robert Pollard side project Circus Devils are returning with a third album release, Pinball Mars, this coming Halloween (that's October 31st, ghoul) on Fading Captain. With a new sound straddling the fence between their two previous concept-y outings, 2001's Ringworm Interiors and 2002's The Harold Pig Memorial, Pinball Mars promises to be yet another a trip into Pollard's psychedelic limbic system. Tracklist, sir:

01 Are You Out With Me?
02 Gargoyle City
03 Pinball Mars
04 Sick Color
05 Don't Be Late
06 Inkster and the King
07 A Puritan for Storage
08 Alien
09 Plasma
10 Dragging the Medicine
11 Bow Before Your Champion
12 Glass Boots
13 No Hell for Humor
14 Raw Reaction

Considering the recent mysterioso departure of Circus Devil Tim Tobias from Guided By Voices, we're certain this one will have Postal Blowfishers and assorted GbV wingnuts with highlighters in hand, ready to yellow through the lyrical passages that, Nostradamus-like, portended the friction. Add to this drama the latest single from GbV on Matador Europe. Jill Hives finally gets some props with "The Best Of Jill Hives," augmented by a Cheap Trick cover and the Doug Gillard-authored "Free Of This World," out next week in the UK. Don't mind if I do:

01 The Best Of Jill Hives
02 Downed [Cheap Trick]
03 Free Of This World