Surrender Your Poppy Field

Surrender Your Poppy Field
Surrender Your Poppy Field
Studio album by Guided by Voices
Released	February 20, 2020
Recorded	2019
Studio	Serious Business Music (New York City, New York); Magic Door (Montclair, New Jersey);
Genre	Indie rock; power pop;
Label	Guided by Voices Inc.
Producer	Travis Harrison
Guided by Voices chronology

Surrender Your Poppy Field is the 30th studio album by American rock band Guided by Voices.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[1]^[5]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Robert Pollard.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Year Of The Hard Hitter"	4:01
2.	"Volcano"	3:05
3.	"Queen Parking Lot"	1:28
4.	"Arthur Has Business Elsewhere"	2:54
5.	"Cul-De-Sac Kids"	2:35
6.	"Cat Beats A Drum"	2:37
7.	"Windjammer"	2:39
8.	"Steely Dodger"	2:44
9.	"Stone Cold Moron"	2:30
10.	"Physician"	3:37
11.	"Man Called Blunder"	2:49
12.	"Woah Nelly"	1:00
13.	"Andre The Hawk"	2:01
14.	"Always Gone"	1:36
15.	"Next Sea Level"	3:07

Personnel

Guided by Voices

Robert Pollard – lead vocals
Doug Gillard – guitar, backing vocals, string arrangement
Kevin March – drums, backing vocals
Mark Shue – bass guitar, backing vocals
Bobby Bare Jr. – guitar, backing vocals

Additional musicians

Abby Shue – vocals (track 9)

Technical

Travis Harrison – engineering
Ray Ketchum – engineering
Vince Williams – art direction
Sarah Zade-Pollard – art direction
Jamal Ruhe – mastering
Jeff Powell – mastering
Robert Pollard – artwork, layout

References

^ ^a ^b Rowin, Michael Joshua (February 14, 2020). "Review: Guided by Voices's Surrender Your Poppy Field Serves Power Pop with a Twist". Slant Magazine. Retrieved August 16, 2022.
^ Ehrlich, Brenna (January 7, 2020). "Guided by Voices Announce First Album of 2020 'Surrender Your Poppy Field'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved August 16, 2022.
^ Guided by Voices - Surrender Your Poppy Field Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic, retrieved August 16, 2022
^ Guided By Voices - Surrender Your Poppy Field, February 20, 2020, retrieved August 16, 2022
^ Surrender Your Poppy Field by Guided by Voices, retrieved August 16, 2022

External links

Surrender Your Poppy Field at Discogs (list of releases)
Surrender Your Poppy Field at MusicBrainz (list of releases)

[Slant-1] Rowin, Michael Joshua (February 14, 2020). "Review: Guided by Voices's Surrender Your Poppy Field Serves Power Pop with a Twist". Slant Magazine. Retrieved August 16, 2022.

[2] Ehrlich, Brenna (January 7, 2020). "Guided by Voices Announce First Album of 2020 'Surrender Your Poppy Field'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved August 16, 2022.

[3] Guided by Voices - Surrender Your Poppy Field Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic, retrieved August 16, 2022

[4] Guided By Voices - Surrender Your Poppy Field, February 20, 2020, retrieved August 16, 2022

[5] Surrender Your Poppy Field by Guided by Voices, retrieved August 16, 2022

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Robert Pollard Doug Gillard Mark Shue Bobby Bare Jr. Kevin March Tobin Sprout Mitch Mitchell Greg Demos Kevin Fennell Jim Macpherson James Greer Discography
Studio albums	Devil Between My Toes (1987) Sandbox (1987) Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia (1989) Same Place the Fly Got Smashed (1990) Propeller (1992) Vampire on Titus (1993) Bee Thousand (1994) Alien Lanes (1995) Under the Bushes Under the Stars (1996) Tonics & Twisted Chasers (1996) Mag Earwhig! (1997) Do the Collapse (1999) Isolation Drills (2001) Universal Truths and Cycles (2002) Earthquake Glue (2003) Half Smiles of the Decomposed (2004) Let's Go Eat the Factory (2012) Class Clown Spots a UFO (2012) The Bears for Lunch (2012) English Little League (2013) Motivational Jumpsuit (2014) Cool Planet (2014) Please Be Honest (2016) August by Cake (2017) How Do You Spell Heaven (2017) Space Gun (2018) Zeppelin Over China (2019) Warp and Woof (2019) Sweating the Plague (2019) Surrender Your Poppy Field (2020) Mirrored Aztec (2020) Styles We Paid For (2020) Earth Man Blues (2021) It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It Is Them! (2021) Crystal Nuns Cathedral (2022) Tremblers and Goggles by Rank (2022) La La Land (2023) Welshpool Frillies (2023) Nowhere to Go but Up (2023) Strut of Kings (2024) Universe Room (2025)
EPs	Forever Since Breakfast (1986) The Grand Hour (1993) Static Airplane Jive (1993) Get Out of My Stations (1994) Fast Japanese Spin Cycle (1994) Clown Prince of the Menthol Trailer (1994) I Am a Scientist (1994) Tigerbomb (1995) Sunfish Holy Breakfast (1996) Plantations of Pale Pink (1996) Wish in One Hand… (1997) Plugs for the Program (1999) Hold on Hope (2000) Dayton, Ohio–19 Something and 5 (2000) Daredevil Stamp Collector (2001) The Pipe Dreams of Instant Prince Whippet (2002) Down by the Racetrack (2013) Wine Cork Stonehenge (2018) 100 Dougs (2018) 1901 Acid Rock (2019) Umlaut Over the Ozone (2019)
Live albums	Live from Austin, TX (2007)
Compilation albums	The Best of Guided by Voices: Human Amusements at Hourly Rates (2003) Crickets: Best of the Fading Captain Series 1999–2007 (2007) Scalping the Guru (2022)
Box sets	Box (1995) Suitcase: Failed Experiments and Trashed Aircraft (2000) Hardcore UFOs: Revelations, Epiphanies and Fast Food in the Western Hemisphere (2003) Suitcase 2: American Superdream Wow (2005) Suitcase 3: Up We Go Now (2009) Suitcase 4: Captain Kangaroo Won the War (2015)
Robert Pollard solo albums	Not in My Airforce (1996) Waved Out (1998) Kid Marine (1999) Motel of Fools (2003) Fiction Man (2004) Relaxation of the Asshole (2005) From a Compound Eye (2006) Normal Happiness (2006) Silverfish Trivia (2007) Standard Gargoyle Decisions (2007) Coast to Coast Carpet of Love (2007) Superman Was a Rocker (2008) Weatherman and Skin Goddess (2008) Robert Pollard Is Off to Business (2008) The Crawling Distance (2009) Elephant Jokes (2009) We All Got Out of the Army (2010) Moses on a Snail (2010) Space City Kicks (2011) Lord of the Birdcage (2011) Mouseman Cloud (2012) Jack Sells the Cow (2012) Honey Locust Honky Tonk (2013) Blazing Gentlemen (2013) Faulty Superheroes (2015) Of Course You Are (2016)
Tobin Sprout albums	Carnival Boy (1996) Moonflower Plastic (1997) Let's Welcome the Circus People (1999) Lost Planets & Phantom Voices (2003) The Bluebirds of Happiness Tried to Land on My Shoulder (2010) The Universe & Me (2017)
Airport 5 albums	Tower in the Fountain of Sparks (2001) Life Starts Here (2002)
Boston Spaceships albums	Brown Submarine (2008) The Planets are Blasted (2009) Zero to 99 (2009) Our Cubehouse Still Rocks (2010) Let It Beard (2011)
Lifeguards and Doug Gillard albums	Speak Kindly of Your Volunteer Fire Department (1999) Mist King Urth (2003) Waving at the Astronauts (2011)
Robert Pollard side projects	In Shop We Build Electric Chairs: Professional Music by Nightwalker 1984–1993 (1999) Big Trouble (2000) Choreographed Man of War (2001) Calling Zero (2002) Blues and Boogie Shoes (2006)
Circus Devils albums	Ringworm Interiors (2001) The Harold Pig Memorial (2002) Pinball Mars (2004) Five (2005) Sgt. Disco (2007) Ataxia (2008) Gringo (2009) Mother Skinny (2010) Capsized! (2011) When Machines Attack (2013) My Mind Has Seen the White Trick (2013) Escape (2014) Stomping Grounds (2015) Laughs Last (2017)