The Crawling Distance is 11th studio album released by singer-songwriter Robert Pollard on January 20, 2009. Similar to many of Pollard's releases since Fiction Man in 2004, all instrumentation on the album was performed by producer Todd Tobias. The Crawling Distance has a 64/100 score on metacritic and thus was Pollard's lowest rated album on the site, until 2011's Space City Kicks which has a 62.

The Crawling Distance
Studio album by Robert Pollard
Released	January 20, 2009
Genre	Rock, indie rock
Label	Guided by Voices Inc.
Producer	Todd Tobias
Robert Pollard chronology
Robert Pollard Is Off to Business (2008) The Crawling Distance (2009) Elephant Jokes (2009)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	64/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Pitchforkmedia	(2.8/10) [2]
PopMatters	[3]
Spin	[4]
The Times	[5]

Track listing

1. "Faking My Harlequin" - 3:46
2. "Cave Zone" - 2:55
3. "Red Cross Vegas Night" - 3:41
4. "The Butler Stands for All of Us" - 3:45
5. "It's Easy" - 4:09
6. "No Island" - 4:49
7. "Silence Be Destroyed" - 2:49
8. "Imaginary Queen Ann" - 2:20
9. "On Short Wave" - 3:21
10. "Too Much Fun" - 4:09

References