Pitchfork

Robert Pollard's prolificacy is so large that he needs not one, not two, but three record labels to contain his output. Right now, the former Guided By Voices king is prepping a mini-album for his own label, Prom Is Coming, as well as another solo full-length for Merge and a Circus Devils album for Ipecac.

(Yes, Ipecac. Mike Patton's label. So right now, Robert Pollard is labelmates with both Camera Obscura and the Melvins.)

First up: the self-released mini-album. Last month, we reported that Pollard told Billboard.com that he had wrapped up his next album for Merge, Silverfish Trivia, due in the fall. Well, Silverfish Trivia has evolved into a 22-minute, seven-song mini-LP, and it's due April 17 on Pollard's new label, Prom Is Coming.

Prom Is Coming is Pollard's replacement for the Fading Captain Series-- it is not, as Pollard previously told Billboard, called Record Company Records. Pollard cranked out the mini-album with producer/right hand man Todd Tobias, with Chris George of Invert contributing string arrangements.

28 more songs have already been written for Pollard's next full-length solo album, tentatively titled Standard Gargoyle Decisions and penciled in for a September release on Merge. Although Pollard has already fulfilled his original contract with the label (with the release of last year's From a Compound Eye and Normal Happiness albums), a new one is being created.

Sgt. Disco will be the Ipecac debut from Circus Devils, Pollard's collaboration with Tobias. Due in July, it's 32 tracks long and is "sort of like an indie rock Fantomas" with "more experimentation than you'd expect or have heard from Pollard in the past", according to a publicist.

Silverfish Trivia tracklist:

01 Come Outside
02 Circle Saw Boys Club
03 Wickerman Smile
04 Touched to Be Sure
05 Waves, Etc.
06 Cats Love a Parade
07 Speak in Many Colors