Ask Them Lexo and the Leapers

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  • Release Date: 03/28/2000
  • Original Release: 1999
  • Label: LUNA RECORDS
  • UPC: 665998900222

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Ask Them

1LISTENTime Machines 2:16
2LISTENAlone, Stinking and Unafraid 3:38
3LISTENPlainskin 3:08
4LISTENWill You Show Me Your Gold? 3:23
5LISTENFair Touching 2:56
6LISTENCircling Motorhead Mountain 1:50

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The Robert Pollard Writing Machine continues to find (or rather create) outlets for his songwriting prowess outside his already mass-productive band, Guided by Voices. This time around, it is the playfully monikered Lexo and the Leapers, whose six-song mini-album from Rockathon Records, Ask Them, is number two in that label's Fading Captain Series. The six songs here do not equal an insubstantial listen -- the EP finds Pollard fronting Dayton band the Tasties, whose playing is muscular, ferocious, full-bore rock. Any experimental tendencies are kept locked away. The soundscape is pop-directed but with a relentless sonic wall of guitars and feedback. The songs -- cranked out in a single day -- are unflaggingly, implausibly good, especially the carefree hook on "Time Machines" and the poignant melody and ruminative lyrics of "Plainskin." Whether Lexo and the Leapers are a full-time side project for both Pollard and the Tasties or just a whim to kill time (while putting out good pop music) is anyone's guess. Stanton Swihart, All Music Guide

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