Alien Lanes

Village Voice (2/20/96) - Ranked #33 in Village Voice's 1995 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll.
Rolling Stone (3/23/95, pp.119-121) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...[GBV] display a chemistry born of a near decade spent rocking the basement....On ALIEN they also reveal influences ranging from early Cheap Trick and T.Rex's psychedelic glam to Wire's deranged art punk and everything by the Beatles..."
Spin (4/95, pp.198-99) - 7 - Recommended - "...There are some classic GBV stylings here; the band's Brit fetish results in...gloriously hummable we-could-have-been-bigger-than-the-Beatles....The bands GBV sounds like start to sound like it..."
Q Magazine (7/95, p.118) - 3 Stars - Good - "...crackly, resolutely low-fi stuff, [that] delights in coursing through 28 tracks, plenty of which give new meaning to musical brevity....A touch reminiscent of a less eclectic Camper Van Beethoven, Guided By Voices are proof that resolute underdog status can pay off in the long run."
Entertainment Weekly (3/18/95, pp.88-90) - "...After nine albums accompanied by foaming-at-the-mouth critical adulation, you'd think Guided By Voices would be ripe for commercial breakout. But Robert Pollard's fragmented, hallucinatory compositions and rudimentary production serve as a kind of insurance against overexposure..." - Rating: B+