After penning a review of 2018’s Space Gun—and compiling a well-received (sarcasm) ranking of Guided By Voices’ 25 LPs up to that point—I half-seriously told MAGNET’s editor that I was retiring from writing about the band and its genius auteur Robert Pollard. (I did end up doing a blurb about the then-upcoming Warp And Woof a few months later.) It wasn’t that I’d stopped listening to and/or caring about Pollard’s songs; rather, serving as the rag’s go-to GBV product tester had gotten stale—and not just for readers. Apart from, “Man, this guy’s so good,” I’d run out of things to say.