English Little League

Studio album by

Released

April 30, 2013

Studio

The Public Hi-Fi Balloon in Dayton, Ohio

Genre

Indie rock

Length

45:54

Label

Guided by Voices Inc. / Fire Records (UK)

Guided by Voices chronology

The Bears for Lunch
(2012)

English Little League
(2013)

Motivational Jumpsuit
(2014)

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	71/100^[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Consequence of Sound	^[2]
The A.V. Club	B^[3]

English Little League is the 19th album by Dayton, Ohio rock group Guided by Voices.^[4]

In a July 2013 interview with Magnet magazine, Robert Pollard hinted that English Little League would be the final Guided by Voices album.^[5] A 20th album Motivational Jumpsuit was then released in 2014.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Robert Pollard, except where noted

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Xeno Pariah"		2:04
2.	"Know Me As Heavy"		2:50
3.	"Islands (She Talks In Rainbows)"	Tobin Sprout	2:16
4.	"Trashcan Full Of Nails"		3:31
5.	"Send To Celeste (And The Cosmic Athletes)"		3:19
6.	"The Quiet Game"	Sprout	3:19
7.	"Noble Insect"	Pollard, Sprout	3:24
8.	"Sir Garlic Breath"	Pollard, Greg Demos	2:26
9.	"Crybaby 4-Star Hotel"		1:53
10.	"Biographer Seahorse"		3:36
11.	"Flunky Minnows"		2:12
12.	"Birds"	Pollard, Sprout	2:45
13.	"The Sudden Death Of Epstein's Ways"	Sprout	2:16
14.	"Reflections In A Metal Whistle"		1:47
15.	"Taciturn Caves"		3:55
16.	"A Burning Glass"		2:01
17.	"W/ Glass In Foot"		2:20
Total length:			45:54

Charts

Chart (2013)	Peak position
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard)^[6]	21

References

^ "English Little League Reviews". Metacritic.com. Retrieved 2013-06-24.
^ Grant, Sarah (2013-05-02). "Album Review". consequence.net. Retrieved 2013-06-24.
^ Wild, Matt (2013-04-30). "Guided by Voice - English Little League". Avclub.com. Retrieved 2013-06-24.
^ "Guided by Voices announces new album, English Little League". Consequence of Sound. 21 December 2012. Retrieved 2013-04-16.
^ "– Curated News, Gossip, Concert Reviews, Fearless Political Commentary, Interviews….Plus, the Usual Sex, Drugs and Rock n' Roll » Blog Archive » EXCERPT: In Bob We Trust". Phawker.com. 2013-07-03. Retrieved 2013-10-26.
^ "Guided by Voices Chart History (Heatseekers Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved October 10, 2018.

v t e 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)
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	Brown Submarine (2008) The Planets are Blasted (2009) Zero to 99 (2009) Our Cubehouse Still Rocks (2010) Let It Beard (2011)
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	Ringworm Interiors (2001) The Harold Pig Memorial (2002) Pinball Mars (2004) Five (2005) Sgt. Disco (2007) Ataxia (2008) Gringo (2009) Mother Skinny (2010) Capsized! (2011) When Machines Attack (2013) My Mind Has Seen the White Trick (2013) Escape (2014) Stomping Grounds (2015) Laughs Last (2017)