Robert Pollard - "Obvious #1"
Monday, February 20, 2012 at 8:34 PM 
Fire Records have let go the opening track to Robert Pollard's forthcoming solo album, Mouseman Cloud. The song goes by the title "Obvious #1" and can be streamed below. Mouseman Cloud hits March 12th. According to the label:
the emphasis on Mouseman Cloud is on wordplay rather than melody, on unkempt exploration rather than traditional song structure. A lot of the tracks sound as if they started as lyrics - even poetry - first, and were fit around the sounds, which is not an uncommon way for Pollard to work, but the album's gleeful verbosity could be interpreted as the work of a man who's maybe been feeling the pressure of expectations from (for instance) a Guided By Voices reunion and just wants to cut loose.
By the way, Guided By Voices are out on the road now.
