Guided by Voices/New Radiant Storm Kings, "The Opposing
Engineer Sleeps Alone"/"I Am A Scientist" (Chunk Records)
Another
intriguing combo 7", although not nearly as interesting as the
Tortoise/Stereolab effort reviewed here last week. GBV's offering, presumably
one of the tracks that never made it to Under the Bushes, Under the
Stars is all-too reminiscent of that album's most insidious qualities:
catchy tune but nothing special, so-so lyrics, long endings instead of quick
descents. And New Radiant Storm King's cover of "I Am A Scientist," a great
song off of GBV's Bee Thousand is yet another example of the
exactly-the-same-but-worse cover disease that grips bands like the
plague.