Alien Lanes by Guided By Voices: Lo-Fi/Pop. At 28 tracks long you may think this album is over long. It’s not. Most tracks are around just over a minute long. The lyrics are cryptic and the music suitably fuzzy for a lo-fi recording, this is not to the detriment of the songs though. Weaned on a heavy diet of The Beatles, all the songs have some great pop melodies which you feel you could sing along to as soon as the first time you’ve heard them. TWH: A Salty Salute; As We Go Up, We Go Down; A Good Flying Bird

Grade: C