New PDF release: Closer You Are: The Story of Robert Pollard and Guided By

By Matthew Cutter

ISBN-10: 0306825767

ISBN-13: 9780306825767

The approved biography of Robert Pollard, indie rock icon and founding father of the tune staff Guided through Voices

Robert Pollard has been a staple of the indie rock scene because the early Eighties, together with his band Guided via Voices. Pollard was once an established grade university instructor who toiled without end on his song, purely discovering good fortune after adopting a home made technique, counting on lo-fi domestic recordings for far of his and his band's occupation. A prolific artist, Pollard keeps to churn out album after album, a lot to the acclaim of critics and his obsessive and committed enthusiasts. yet his tale hasn't ever been faithfully informed in its entirety. until eventually now.

Closer You Are is the licensed biography of Robert Pollard and Guided via Voices. writer Matthew Cutter is a longtime good friend of Pollard and, with Pollard's blessing, Cutter has got down to inform the entire, precise tale of Guided by way of Voices. this may be the 1st publication to take an in-depth examine the guy in the back of all of it, with interviews performed by way of the writer with Pollard's pals, family members, and bandmates, in addition to unfettered entry to Pollard himself and his large information. a sequence of appendices will extra remove darkness from Pollard's solo profession, part initiatives, and artwork shows.

Robert Pollard has had an awesome and likely never-ending occupation in rock tune, yet he is additionally demonstrated himself as a consummate artist who works on his personal phrases. Now enthusiasts can in the end study the entire tale at the back of one in every of America's maximum dwelling songwriters.

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