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English Little League

Guided By Voices

English Little League

20th album from Robert Pollard's alternative rock outfit from Dayton, Ohio

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6.6

Label
Fire Records
UK Release date
29/05/2013
US Release date
30/05/2013
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  1. 8.0 |   Mojo

    It's a good'un. Print edition only

  2. 8.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    It’s an exhaustive album that packs a clown car full of guttural manifestos, Beatles piano ballads, and guttural ballads with the occasional piano
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  3. 7.5 |   A.V. Club

    It remains a pleasure to hear GBV doing what it does best: cranking out song after song
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  4. 7.0 |   DIY

    It's patchy, but when 'English Little League' is good, it's great
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  5. 6.8 |   Pitchfork

    Great as it is that GBV are still knocking sounds like "Flunky Minnows" into the stands, it's a shame they're not popping off 20 such songs a year the way they did way back when
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  6. 6.0 |   All Music

    This is hardly a failure. One just has to search a little harder to find the good songs this time
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  7. 6.0 |   Uncut

    Filled with the kind of gleefully shambolic sounds you'd expect from an adolescent indie band. Print edition only

  8. 6.0 |   PopMatters

    English Little League just misses greatness, but if it’s not the best album they’ve put out since early 2012, it’s certainly the most interesting
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  9. 6.0 |   Paste Magazine

    Nothing to hate here, but not a whole lot to love, either
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