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Lexo and the Leapers
Today’s episode finds our hero, Robert Pollard, sharing the billing with a band of unknowns, who will probably remain that way.
"Ask Them" is actually an EP’s worth of tunes that could have landed on a Guided By Voices album, or a Robert Pollard solo album, or God only knows where else.
The songs themselves are pretty good – all of them are written by Pollard – but the instrumental accompaniment is just too bland for anyone to care much. Guitars are all cranked to distortion, pounding out simple chord patterns; not much interesting there. This overtly simple technique also manages to render the bass and drums moot, if not altogether irrelevant. Plodding along like Crazy Horse with neither the finesse nor the reckless abandon, Lexo and the Leapers is a one-off project that would have been better if they had only interpreted the material instead of mowing it down.
Grade: 
 
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