Sweating the Plague

2019 studio album by Guided by Voices

Sweating the Plague

Studio album by

Guided by Voices

Released

October 25, 2019

Genre

Indie rock

Length

37:48

Label

Guided By Voices Inc.

Guided by Voices chronology

Warp and Woof
(2019)

Sweating the Plague
(2019)

Surrender Your Poppy Field
(2020)

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	72/100^[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
Exclaim!	7/10^[3]
PopMatters	^[4]
Slant	^[5]
Uncut	^[6]

Sweating the Plague is the 29th album released by Guided by Voices, released on October 25, 2019.^[7]^[8]

Track listing

All songs written by Robert Pollard.

"Downer" – 3:13
"Street Party" – 2:00
"Mother's Milk Elementary" – 2:24
"Heavy Like the World" – 3:13
"Ego Central High" – 3:02
"The Very Second" – 4:43
"Tiger on Top" – 3:02
"Unfun Glitz" – 2:54
"Your Cricket (Is Rather Unique)" – 3:02
"Immortals" – 3:08
"My Wrestling Days Are Over" – 2:12
"Sons of the Beard" – 4:48

Personnel

Robert Pollard – vocals
Doug Gillard – guitar
Bobby Bare Jr. – guitar
Mark Shue – bass guitar, backing vocals on "Your Cricket"
Kevin March – drums, lead vocals on "Your Cricket"
Travis Harrison – drums on "Your Cricket"

References

^ "Critic Reviews for Sweating the Plague". Metacritic. Retrieved November 15, 2019.
^ Deming, Mark. "Guided by Voices – Sweating the Plague". AllMusic.
^ Sylvester, Daniel (October 30, 2019). "Guided by Voices – Sweating the Plague". Exclaim!. Retrieved November 15, 2019.
^ Rowe, Paul (October 23, 2019). "Guided by Voices: Sweating the Plague". PopMatters. Retrieved November 15, 2019.
^ Rowin, Michael Joshua (October 24, 2019). "Review: Guided by Voices's Sweating the Plague Is Human-Scaled and Inventive". Slant. Retrieved November 15, 2019.
^ "Guided by Voices – Sweating the Plague". Uncut. December 2019. p. 29.
^ "Guided By Voices - Sweating The Plague". PunkNews. October 23, 2019. Retrieved November 7, 2019.
^ "Guided by Voices share Track by Track breakdown of new album Sweating the Plague: Stream". www.yahoo.com. 29 October 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-07.

Guided by Voices

Robert Pollard
Doug Gillard
Mark Shue
Bobby Bare Jr.
Kevin March

Tobin Sprout
Mitch Mitchell
Greg Demos
Kevin Fennell
Jim Macpherson
James Greer

Discography

Studio 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)
Space Gun (2018)
Zeppelin Over China (2019)
Warp and Woof (2019)
Sweating the Plague (2019)
Surrender Your Poppy Field (2020)
Mirrored Aztec (2020)
Styles We Paid For (2020)
Earth Man Blues (2021)
It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It Is Them! (2021)
Crystal Nuns Cathedral (2022)
Tremblers and Goggles by Rank (2022)
La La Land (2023)
Welshpool Frillies (2023)
Nowhere to Go but Up (2023)
Strut of Kings (2024)

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 (2001)
The Pipe Dreams of Instant Prince Whippet (2002)
Down by the Racetrack (2013)
Wine Cork Stonehenge (2018)
100 Dougs (2018)
1901 Acid Rock (2019)
Umlaut Over the Ozone (2019)

Live albums

Live from Austin, TX (2007)

Compilation albums

The Best of Guided by Voices: Human Amusements at Hourly Rates (2003)
Crickets: Best of the Fading Captain Series 1999–2007 (2007)
Scalping the Guru (2022)

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)

Robert Pollard
solo albums

Not in My Airforce (1996)
Waved Out (1998)
Kid Marine (1999)
Motel of Fools (2003)
Fiction Man (2004)
Relaxation of the Asshole (2005)
From a Compound Eye (2006)
Normal Happiness (2006)
Silverfish Trivia (2007)
Standard Gargoyle Decisions (2007)
Coast to Coast Carpet of Love (2007)
Superman Was a Rocker (2008)
Weatherman and Skin Goddess (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)
The Universe & Me (2017)

Airport 5 albums

Tower in the Fountain of Sparks (2001)
Life Starts Here (2002)

Boston Spaceships albums

Lifeguards and
Doug Gillard albums

Speak Kindly of Your Volunteer Fire Department (1999)
Mist King Urth (2003)
Waving at the Astronauts (2011)

Robert Pollard side projects

In Shop We Build Electric Chairs: Professional Music by Nightwalker 1984–1993 (1999)
Big Trouble (2000)
Choreographed Man of War (2001)
Calling Zero (2002)
Blues and Boogie Shoes (2006)

Circus Devils albums