The 6th and final album of the reunion era, Cool Planet might not be as immediate as some of the earlier ones but there are still several great tracks here. The best are from Tobin Sprout, who offers up several gems including “All American Boy” and “Narrated By Paul” (among others). The rest of the album is dominated by Bob Pollard and it does not sound too far off from his solo work of the time. While it can be argued that he saved his best songs for those solo albums but there are still many fantastic tracks here, including “Males Of Wormwood Mars” and “Table At Fool’s Tooth”.
By this point, Kevin Fennell had been sacked and replaced by former/future GbV drummer, Kevin March, so the whole “classic lineup” thing was kaput. There must have been other issues with the lineup as, a few months after this album the band abruptly split. Tours were cancelled and the bridge was burned. Sad but that reunion had never been expected in the first place, so every song and album was a gift.
Within three years of that split, a new GbV came into being and has since, without any lineup changes, has since released sixteen albums (we’ll talk about those later).
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