Eight years after what was meant to be GBV's final album, Robert Pollard, the band's relentlessly prolific linchpin, has gathered together their "classic lineup" for a 17th studio album. Recorded in living rooms, basements and garages, it's a scrappy, doggedly lo-fi, 21-track assemblage of half-thoughts and afterthoughts – fragments as variable in quality as they are in style. There are just enough titbits of melody though – not least that of the sweetly silly and downbeat "Doughnut for a Snowman" – to sustain interest through the beerier-sounding fits and starts.