English Little League

Guided by Voices - English Little League
Critic Score
Based on 10 reviews
2013 Ratings: #770 / 1115
User Score
Based on 16 ratings
Liked by 1 person
April 30, 2013 / Release Date
LP / Format
Fire, GBV Inc. / Label
Indie Rock / Genre
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CRITIC REVIEWS

80
Consequence of Sound

It’s an exhaustive album that packs a clown car full of guttural manifestos (“Xeno Pariah”), Beatles piano ballads (“The Sudden Death of Epstein’s Ways”), and guttural ballads with the occasional piano (“Reflections In A Metal Whistle”).

75
A.V. Club

English Little League continues that even-keel trend, and goes a long way in setting the group’s new/old lineup in stone. 

70
DIY

It's patchy, but when 'English Little League' is good, it's great.

68
Pitchfork

English Little League, like so many GBV albums before it, gathers a couple all-timers and a few respectably jagged pop-rockers together with several total trainwrecks and calls it an LP. 

60
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, the most willing to take risks. 

60
AllMusic

The three records the band did in 2012 are all stronger collections, but this is hardly a failure. One just has to search a little harder to find the good songs this time.

60
Paste

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

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Added on: April 1, 2013