* * * GUIDED BY VOICES, “Isolation Drills,” TVT

Robert Pollard has gone and made everything obvious. Backed by another new lineup and guided by production guru Rob Schnapf, the practitioner of the best affected British accent in Dayton, Ohio, offers an irrepressible collection of sawtoothed pop. If some of GbV’s past work was like a beautiful painting hung crooked, all is plumb here--from incendiary guitars drawing from a full inventory of power chords to lyrics just arcane enough to be charming.

Fans who find Pollard’s quirkiness endearing might be taken aback by the radio-readiness of “Glad Girls,” with its S-A T-U-R D-A-Y beat, or “Chasing Heather Crazy” and its Material Issue aftertaste. Subtler is satisfying, as the transatlantic jangle of “Fair Touching,” the slow-burning “The Enemy” and the wistful “Twilight Campfighter” demonstrate.

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