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Released | September 1, 1987 | |||
Recorded | Mid-1987 | |||
Studio | Steve Wilbur's 8 Track Garage, Dayton, Ohio, United States | |||
Genre | Indie rock | |||
Length | 27:11 | |||
Language | English | |||
Label | Halo Records | |||
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Sandbox is the second studio album from American indie rock band Guided by Voices.
Editors at AllMusic rated this album 2 out of 5 stars, with critic Brian Egan writing that the band "took a short step back" from their previous album and that the songs "ultimately fail to register".[1] Byron Coley of Spin pointed to the work on Sandbox to declare that Guided by Voices is "one of the sharpest sounding angle-pop bands out of the Midwest since the days of Green".[2] In that publication's 1995 album guide, they rated Sandbox a 1 out of 5, stating that the band deviated from their lo-fi music roots after performing with R.E.M.[3]
Frontman Robert Pollard called this album "an attempt to make a huge power-pop record for less than a thousand dollars" in 1995 and journalist David Sprague reported that this album was painful for him to listen to.[4]
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