Guided By Voices return with new album Zeppelin Over China

By Scott Munro
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Guided By Voices will release their new album in early 2019 - listen to My Future In Barcelona

Guided By Voices have confirmed that they’ll release their new album in early 2019.

It’s titled Zeppelin Over China and it’ll arrive on February 1 through Rockathon.

To mark the announcement, the band have released a stream of their new single titled My Future In Barcelona and revealed they’ll play the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona on May 30 and in Porto on June 7.

It will be the first time Guided By Voices have played in Spain since 1997 and the first time ever that they’ve lined up a date in Portugal.

Zeppelin Over China is described as “a major and majestic work in the GBV canon, spotlighting the scope and genius of Robert Pollard's songwriting. 

“With 32 songs in 75 minutes, the massive Zeppelin reaches lofty heights on its musical journey. Pollard continues to deliver endless invention and emotional wallop in two and three-minute guitar rock gems.”

A full tracklist will be revealed in due course.

Pollard is joined in the lineup by guitarist Doug Gillard, drummer Kevin March, bassist Mark Shue and guitarist Bobby Bare Jr.

Scott Munro
Scott Munro
Louder e-commerce editor

Scott has spent more than 30 years in newspapers and magazines as an editor, production editor, sub-editor, designer, writer and reviewer. After initially joining our news desk in the summer of 2014, he moved to the e-commerce team full-time in 2020. He maintains Louder’s buyer’s guides, scouts out the best deals for music fans and reviews headphones, speakers, books and more. He's written more than 11,000 articles across Louder, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Prog and has previous written for publications including IGN, the Sunday Mirror, Daily Record and The Herald covering everything from daily news and weekly features, to video games, travel and whisky. Scott grew up listening to rock and prog, cutting his teeth on bands such as Marillion and Magnum before his focus shifted to alternative and post-punk in the late 80s. His favourite bands are Fields Of The Nephilim, The Cure, New Model Army, All About Eve, The Mission, Ned's Atomic Dustbin and Drab Majesty, but he also still has a deep love of Rush.