A Quick Look at Guided by Voices’ ‘Isolation Drills’ LP

Best Record of 2001: Day 44 Cover art courtesy of TVT records Good morning! Today we’re taking a look at Guided by Voices 2001 LP Isolation Drills. The glad girls only wanna get you high. I couldn’t tell you the first time I heard GBV. There was no revelation, no epiphany the way there might’ve been with other bands. It just seems like they’ve always sorta been there, and if i’m honest, that’s kinda how I like it. In one of my year-end issues, I joked that if we go more than six months without a GBV release, something must be horribly wrong. I was only half kidding. The band’s prolific output- or Robert Pollard’s- is no secret. An entire media empire could be built by simply dissecting each record in order. Indeed, if you want a podcast that goes through most of the band’s catalog—it ended in 2020, so it’s missing, like, 13-14 records— you can start here. The GBV discography is lengthy, but there’s no shortage of twists and turns along the way. That’s good for variety- and if you are…