Boston Spaceships was a rock band featuring Robert Pollard and Chris Slusarenko of Guided By Voices, and John Moen of The Decemberists and Perhapst. The name of the band came from a nickname Pollard gave to the Boston cream donut from Krispy Kreme, which is Pollard's favorite donut. The band released several albums before disbanding in 2011 with their final album Let it Beard.[1]
History
Beginnings
In June 2008 Pollard announced he had formed a new recording project, Boston Spaceships. Pollard's confidence in the band led to a seventeen date fall tour that began in late September. For the band's sole set of live dates Pollard, Moen and Slusarenko were joined by longtime Pollard collaborators Tommy Keene and Jason Narducy.
The band's first album Brown Submarine was released in September and received good reviews, scoring the highest score for a Pollard release on Metacritic since GBV's Earthquake Glue five years prior.[2] The album was named the 12th best album of 2008 by Magnet Magazine.[3] The band released two 7 inch records, Headache Revolution and You Satisfy Me to round out the year.
The band released their third album Zero to 99 in October 2009. Magnet Magazine called it the eighth best album of 2009[4] and The Big Takeover's Tim Bugbee called Zero to 99 the 5th best album of 2009.[5] In late 2009 they released their first live albumLicking Stamps And Drinking Shitty Coffee – Boston Spaceships Live in Atlanta from the band's show of October 17, 2008.
2010
Boston Spaceships released an EP, Camera Found The Ray-Gun in March 2010. Their fourth LP, Our Cubehouse Still Rocks, was released in September 2010.
