ROBERT Pollard, Guided By Voices' lone constant voice and prodigious songwriter, curses the "common human tendency to grow tired of something if it hangs around too long".

After 20 odd records, he has killed off his idiosyncratic band from Dayton, Ohio, signing off with the mocking refrain For Far Too Long echoing down the exit tunnel at the close of Huffman Prairie Flying Field. "I've always said that when I make a record I'm totally satisfied with as befitting a final album, then that will be it, and this is it," he says. This is it, indeed. Pollard's GBV are still experimenting with sonic textures; still in thrall to mid-Sixties' guitar pop; still melancholic but a sucker for a pun; and still, like his Girls Of Wild Strawberries, delicious.

Updated: 09:06 Thursday, October 28, 2004