Cool Planet

Cool Planet
Cool Planet
Studio album by Guided by Voices
Released	May 13, 2014
Recorded	2014
Studio	Cyberteknics in Dayton, Ohio
Genre	Indie rock
Length	36:28
Label	Guided by Voices Inc. / Fire Records
Producer	Robert Pollard
Guided by Voices chronology

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	68/100^[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
Exclaim!	7/10^[3]
MusicOMH	^[4]
Paste	7.0/10^[5]
Pitchfork	6.2/10^[6]

Cool Planet is the 22nd album by Ohio-based group, Guided by Voices. It was the final album by the band^[7] 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.^[8] It was released in the UK a few days later, May 19, on Fire Records.^[9]

Track listing

All tracks are 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

Charts

Chart performance for *Cool Planet*
Chart	Peak position
US Billboard 200^[10]	7

References

^ "Cool Planet Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
^ Deming, Mark. "Cool Planet - Guided by Voices". AllMusic. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
^ Barakat, Fariah (May 15, 2014). "Exclaim! Review". Exclaim!. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
^ Kilby, Dylan (May 19, 2014). "MusicOMH Review". MusicOMH. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
^ Martin, Garrett (May 13, 2014). "Guided by Voices: Cool Planet Review". Paste. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
^ Heller, Jason (May 13, 2014). "Guided By Voices: Motivational Jumpsuit". Pitchfork. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
^ Pelly, Jenn (September 18, 2014). "Guided By Voices Break Up (Again)". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on November 1, 2014. Retrieved November 3, 2014.
^ "Guided By Voices Database". Retrieved July 28, 2014.
^ "Guided By Voices' New Album 'Cool Planet' Due Out 19 May 2014". contactmusic.com. March 5, 2014. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
^ "Guided by Voices Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved April 28, 2020.

[1] "Cool Planet Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved July 28, 2014.

[2] Deming, Mark. "Cool Planet - Guided by Voices". AllMusic. Retrieved July 28, 2014.

[3] Barakat, Fariah (May 15, 2014). "Exclaim! Review". Exclaim!. Retrieved April 28, 2020.

[4] Kilby, Dylan (May 19, 2014). "MusicOMH Review". MusicOMH. Retrieved April 28, 2020.

[5] Martin, Garrett (May 13, 2014). "Guided by Voices: Cool Planet Review". Paste. Retrieved July 28, 2014.

[6] Heller, Jason (May 13, 2014). "Guided By Voices: Motivational Jumpsuit". Pitchfork. Retrieved July 28, 2014.

[7] Pelly, Jenn (September 18, 2014). "Guided By Voices Break Up (Again)". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on November 1, 2014. Retrieved November 3, 2014.

[8] "Guided By Voices Database". Retrieved July 28, 2014.

[9] "Guided By Voices' New Album 'Cool Planet' Due Out 19 May 2014". contactmusic.com. March 5, 2014. Retrieved July 28, 2014.

[ac_Billboard200_Guided_by_Voices-10] "Guided by Voices Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved April 28, 2020.

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Guided by Voices
Robert Pollard Doug Gillard Mark Shue Bobby Bare Jr. Kevin March Tobin Sprout 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) (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) Universe Room (2025)
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) The Pipe Dreams of Instant Prince Whippet (2002) Down by the Racetrack (2013)
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)
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