Here is the last GUIDED BY VOICES album. Following this album and its ensuing tour, the band will be gone. After twenty-odd years, twenty-odd lineups, and twenty-odd albums, EPs, singles, triples, stolen bases, misdemeanor convictions, and broken hearts, Dayton Ohio's fortunate sons are taking leave of your senses. 'Half Smiles Of The Decomposed' has an easy-going feel that belies its twisty maze of puns and alliterative allusions, nimble guitar lines, and genre-melding song structures. In other words, it's another dazzling jewel in a catalogue studded with equally shiny gems.