Alien Lanes

Alien Lanes
A desert landscape with a colorful drum in the foreground. The band name and album title encircle the drum like Saturn’s rings.
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 4, 1995
Recorded1994
StudioTobin Sprout's home studio (Dayton, Ohio)
Genre
Length41:15
LabelMatador
Producer
Guided by Voices chronology
Bee Thousand
(1994)
Alien Lanes
(1995)
Under the Bushes Under the Stars
(1996)

Alien Lanes is the eighth full-length album by American lo-fi band Guided by Voices, released on April 4, 1995.[4]

The album was GBV's first release with Matador Records. According to James Greer's book Guided by Voices: A Brief History: Twenty-One Years of Hunting Accidents in the Forests of Rock and Roll the advance for the record was close to a hundred thousand dollars, one of the more expensive deals in Matador's history. In contrast to the lucrative deal, Greer mentions that "The cost for recording Alien Lanes, if you leave out the beer, was about ten dollars."

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  2. ^ Perpetua, Matthew (July 8, 2012). "Guided By Voices Close Out CBGB Festival with Onslaught of New Tunes". Rolling Stone. Retrieved November 1, 2021.
  3. ^ Yassin, Jibril (May 20, 2016). "The 10 Best Power Pop Albums To Own On Vinyl". Vinyl Me Please. Retrieved November 1, 2021.
  4. ^ Alien Lanes at the Guided by Voices database