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"Remember when Guided By Voices were really good? Well, forget that for a sec because Houseguest are really good right now. Like GBV, they're chronically catchy, and they have a similarly frayed set of production values, but they don't leave you with that lingering sense that you're a sucker and will listen to anything." -- Boston Phoenix "Houseguest is simply the best pop band in the country." -- McSweeney's "While the abandon of their stage presence is something to behold, what they are capable of committing in the studio is staggeringly beautiful, skewed pop." -- PopMatters "There's a fine line between sounding intelligent and sounding grating, particularly when lyrics are involved, but Houseguest soft-peddle the jokes and, perhaps more important, the irony. The most obvious precedent is Kurt Wagner's work in Lambchop--all bemusement and understated intelligence." -- Dusted Houseguest is an "adventure rock" band from Akron comprised of five awesome cuties who are all Best Friends Forever! People have told them they sound like Big Country crossed with the Minutemen, or Peter Murphy's solo career crossed with Dire Straits. That probably doesn't make much sense, but anyway, people seem to like it. And they are pretty funny when they get a few drinks in them. They like to take their shirts off onstage, and sometimes there's wrestling involved. Oh, and girls really dig them. I know five girls in particular who think these guys are God's gift to the world of, well, everything. Seriously, you can't get these broads to shut up about how wonderful and perfect their sons are. Houseguest writes bad-ass songs about bad-ass shit like baseball, oceanography, haunted forests, the migration period, Native Americans, girls that aren't their moms, and more. All sorts of cool crap. This is their fourth album, titled Welcome, All That's Difficult. It is very, very good!