Coast to Coast Carpet of Love

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Coast to Coast Carpet of Love
Studio album by Robert Pollard
Released	October 9, 2007
Genre	Rock & Roll, Indie Rock
Label	Merge
Producer	Robert Pollard
Professional reviews
Pitchfork Media (7.0/10) link
Robert Pollard chronology
Standard Gargoyle Decisions (2007) Coast to Coast Carpet of Love (2007) Superman Was a Rocker (2008)

Coast to Coast Carpet of Love is singer-songwriter Robert Pollard's fifth release since the break-up of the Dayton, Ohio band Guided by Voices. It was released October 9, 2007 alongside Standard Gargoyle Decisions. Fifteen-hundred limited edition 180 gram vinyls were also released as a limited time bonus. The album leaked September 24, 2007.

At the December 1st, 2007 show at Southgate House supporting the album, Pollard claimed he talked to Tommy Keene on the phone and told him the new album was Coast to Coast Carpet of Blood, though Keene misheard "Blood" for "Love." When Pollard corrected him, he claimed it should be "Love" because it was "groovier." The title stuck.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Our Gaze"
2. "Count Us In"
3. "Exactly What Words Mean"
4. "Current Desperation (Angels Speak of Nothing)"
5. "Dumb Lady"
6. "Rud Fins"
7. "Customer's Throat"
8. "Miles Under the Skin"
9. "Penumbra"
10. "Slow Hamilton"
11. "Look Is What You Have"
12. "I Clap for Strangers"
13. "Life of a Wife"
14. "Youth Leagues"
15. "When We Were Slaves"
16. "Nicely Now"