Cool Planet

Studio album by Guided by Voices

Released

May 13, 2014

Recorded

2014

Genre

Indie rock

Length

36:28

Label

Guided by Voices Inc. / Fire Records

Producer

Robert Pollard

Guided by Voices chronology

Motivational Jumpsuit
(2014)

Cool Planet
(2014)

Please Be Honest
(2016)

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	69/100^[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
Pitchfork Media	6.2/10^[3]
Paste	7.0/10^[4]

Cool Planet is the 21st album by Ohio-based group, Guided by Voices. It was the final album by the band^[5] before their 2016 reformation. It was released in the United States on May 13, 2014, on the band's own label, Guided by Voices Inc.^[6] It was released in the UK a few days later, May 19, on Fire Records.^[7]

Track listing

All tracks written by Robert Pollard, except where noted.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Authoritarian Zoo"	2:22
2.	"Fast Crawl"	1:42
3.	"Psychotic Crush" (Tobin Sprout)	1:23
4.	"Costume Makes the Man" (R. Pollard/Greg Demos)	2:04
5.	"Hat of Flames"	1:32
6.	"These Dooms"	2:00
7.	"Table at Fool's Tooth"	1:21
8.	"All American Boy" (Sprout)	3:45
9.	"You Get Every Game"	2:08
10.	"Pan Swimmer"	1:02
11.	"The Bone Church" (Sprout/Mitch Mitchell)	2:15
12.	"Bad Love Is Easy to Do"	2:05
13.	"The No Doubters"	2:37
14.	"Narrated by Paul" (Sprout)	1:06
15.	"Cream of Lung"	1:14
16.	"Males of Wormwood Mars"	2:53
17.	"Ticket to Hide" (Sprout)	3:04
18.	"Cool Planet"	1:55
Total length:		36:28

References

↑ "Cool Planet Reviews". Metacritic.com. Retrieved 2014-07-28.
↑ Deming, Mark. "Cool Planet - Guided by Voices". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 2014-07-28.
↑ Heller, Jason (2014-05-13). "Guided By Voices: Motivational Jumpsuit". Pitchfork.com. Retrieved 2014-07-28.
↑ Martin, Garrett (2014-05-13). "Guided by Voices: Cool Planet Review". pastemagazine.com. Retrieved 2014-07-28.
↑ Pelly, Jenn (2014-09-18). "Guided By Voices Break Up (Again)". Pitchfork.com. Retrieved 2014-11-03.
↑ "Guided By Voices Database". Retrieved 2014-07-28.
↑ "Guided By Voices' New Album 'Cool Planet' Due Out 19 May 2014". contactmusic.com. Retrieved 2014-07-28.

Guided by Voices
Robert Pollard Bobby Bare, Jr. Doug Gillard Mark Shue Kevin March Tobin Sprout Mitch Mitchell Greg Demos Kevin Fennell Nate Farley Jim Pollard Chris Slusarenko Jim Macpherson Tim Tobias Don Thrasher James Greer Nick Mitchell
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)
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: Do the Collapse B-sides (2001) The Pipe Dreams of Instant Prince Whippet (2002) Down by the Racetrack (2013)
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)
Compilation albums	The Best of Guided by Voices: Human Amusements at Hourly Rates (2003) Crickets: Best of the Fading Captain Series 1999–2007 (2007)
Related articles	Discography Airport 5 Boston Spaceships Circus Devils Cobra Verde Todd Tobias
Robert Pollard solo albums	Not in My Airforce (1996) Waved Out (1998) Kid Marine (1999) Motel of Fools (EP) (2003) Fiction Man (2004) Relaxation of the Asshole (2005) From a Compound Eye (2006) Normal Happiness (2006) Standard Gargoyle Decisions (2007) Coast to Coast Carpet of Love (2007) Superman Was a Rocker (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)
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)
Acid Ranch albums	Some of the Magic Syrup was Preserved (2002) As Forever: A Manifesto of Fractured Imagination and Wreckless Living (2005) The Great Houdini Wasn't So Great (2007)
Lifeguards and Doug Gillard albums	Speak Kindly of Your Volunteer Fire Department (1999) Mist King Urth (2003) Waving at the Astronauts (2011)
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)
Ricked Wicky albums	I Sell the Circus (2015) King Heavy Metal (2015) Swimmer to a Liquid Armchair (2015)

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