CD Review: Robert Pollard Normal Happiness
Robert Pollard
Normal Happiness
Merge Records
Robert Pollard’s second post-Guided By Voices effort, Normal Happiness, released this month, is another sweet dose of rockin’ pop songs from this true original. With his harder experimental and lo-fi sides now mostly being explored through side projects and collaborations, Pollard here delivers a batch of triumphantly fun and funny songs like “Get a Faceful” and “Supernatural Car Lover”, which go right to the sing-a-long in the car or shower category. Good stuff. Buying this directly from Merge and some record stores yields the nice bonus CD, Moon, a 15-song live recording of Bob and his band, The Ascended Masters, on the road last spring.
–Brad Wesley
