“Pure power pop perfection.” - Glide Magazine
“For a band that released five new albums in 2020 and another two in 2021, alone, even a global pandemic didn’t contain the expanse of new music flowing out of Robert Pollard and co.” - American Songwriter
"Nobody in the world is currently making more good music than the indie-rock heroes Guided By Voices." - Boston Herald
"A late-career masterpiece" - PopMatters
"This is Guided by Voices at their most magisterial, with power-chord riffs working in tandem with Pollard's melodies that spiral up and up." - BrooklynVegan
“Op Crystal Nuns Cathedral zijn de songs weer wat complexer, maar het blijven songs met een kop en een staart, die geen seconde langer duren dan nodig. Geweldig album weer.” De Krenten uit de Pop
“Crystal Nuns Cathedral is further proof that Guided By Voices’ incredible endurance and speed of output is the least remarkable thing about them, dwarfed by their ability to create vital new music that twists classic guitar pop moulds ever more intriguing shapes.” Joyzine
“Pollard and his long-standing, ever-shifting band may be the living definitions of “indie” and “lo-fi,” but each album has been a sturdy collection of fully-realized songs. Crystal Nuns Cathedral, arriving just four months after the band’s last LP, is being touted as one that will stand above the pack.” Spectrum Culture
**** 4 stars. “Thirty-five albums in, incredibly, GBV are still scaling new heights.” - Mojo
**** 4 stars “Pollard and cohorts have an innate rare ability to shower listeners with poperpop earworms that are as rousing as they are comforting.” - Shindig Magazine
“At only twelve songs, some of them hitting the four-minute mark, this is the epic, anthemic side of GBV, nicely produced, more prog-oriented than the power pop nuggets of Earth Man Blues. ‘Re-Develop’ ascends steadily to a defiantly euphoric chorus. ‘Never Mind the List’ stealthily sneaks into your consciousness and stays stuck there, hard not to sing along to. ‘Excited Ones’ and ‘Mad River Man’ are likewise highlights, but this is a very even album best heard as a continuous piece, where it will get under your skin, if you let it in.” The Quietus
“Sure, there is plenty of great new music out there with a multitude of artists blending genres and finding new spaces between the chords but where is the classic rock vibe that many of us grew up on? Guided By Voices’ 35th album, Crystal Nuns Cathedral, is the answer.” Firenote
“This record is a statement, a challenge, a monument, a call to arms.” Cincy Groove
“Pollard continues to challenge himself and listeners with his songwriting and his continued evolution is a breath of fresh air.” GhettoBlaster
“Pollard and his long-standing, ever-shifting band may be the living definitions of “indie” and “lo-fi,” but each album has been a sturdy collection of fully-realized songs. Crystal Nuns Cathedral, arriving just four months after the band’s last LP, is being touted as one that will stand above the pack.” Indie Rock Cafe
“The world needs the rock, and we need loud guitars, we need anthemic songs, we need a reason to raise a rock fist in the air and give a “Hell Yeah”! On Crystal Nuns Cathedral, the band deliver all of this and so much more.” The Tinnitist