Howling Wolf Orchestra
Speedtraps for the Bee Kingdom
2000, The Fading Captain Series
2000 was a strange year for new music from Robert Pollard. The optimistic energy that defined 1999 was gone. Pollard would gain it back in time, but for now it was all used up.
And it happened so suddenly. Back then, I thought that maybe the tour had wiped him out. Or maybe Pollard’s moody dirges of 2000 were an escape from the music business bullshit, a retreat into non-commercial sounds after months of playing the major label game.
Those of us in the spectator seats didn’t know what was happening in Pollard’s personal life at the time, you see.
We didn’t know yet about the divorce.
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