Honey Locust Honky Tonk

Robert Pollard

Honey Locust Honky Tonk

Nineteenth solo album from the hyper-productive singer-songwriter and former Guided By Voices frontman

ADM rating[?]

7.2

Label
Fire
UK Release date
01/07/2013
US Release date
09/07/2013
  1. 8.0 |   Paste Magazine

    The album packs a hefty 17-song tracklist into a relatively succinct play time. Pollard builds it in a very purposeful way—one that could sidetrack the casual listener
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  2. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    It’s a consistent and, at times, deeply thoughtful record that is pleasantly familiar while offering occasional surprises. This easily stands up with the better end of Pollard’s work
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  3. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    As always, Pollard often accomplishes the most in the shortest periods of time, in a minute or two. In one 50-second song he pumps up the audience to a classic rock crescendo
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  4. 7.5 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Not just another Robert Pollard album but a surprising and moving step forwards in the restless career of a master melodian
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  5. 7.4 |   Pitchfork

    There’s some polish on the melodies, a new forthrightness in the lyrics
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  6. 7.0 |   All Music

    Sifting through Pollard's pop-fueled stream of consciousness hardly makes Jack a dull boy, as his acumen for the genre is almost as impressive as his productivity within it
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  7. 7.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    The majority of these 17 tracks are keepers
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  • 1. He Requested Things N/A
  • 2. Circus Green Machine N/A
  • 3. Strange and Pretty Day N/A
  • 4. Suit Minus the Middle N/A
  • 5. Drawing a Picture N/A
  • 6. Who Buries the Undertaker N/A
  • 7. She Hides in Black N/A
  • 8. Her Eyes Play Tricks on the Camera N/A
  • 9. Find a Word N/A
  • 10. I Have to Drink N/A
  • 11. Flash Gordon Style N/A
  • 12. Igloo Hearts N/A
  • 13. Shielding Whatever Needs You N/A
  • 14. I Killed a Man Who Looks Like You N/A
  • 15. Real Fun Is No One's Monopoly N/A
  • 16. It Disappears in the Least Likely Hands (We May Never Not Know) N/A
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