From a Compound Eye

Label: Merge Records
Release date: 24 Jan 2006
Running length: 26 tracks
Running time: 70:32

Tracklist

	Track	Duration	Listeners
1	Gold	3:01	4,977
2	Field Jacket Blues	1:47	4,144
3	Dancing Girls and Dancing Men	2:40	7,496
4	Flowering Orphan	1:51	1,758
5	The Right Thing	4:30	4,185
6	U.S. Mustard Company	2:52	4,172
7	The Numbered Head	5:10	3,080
8	I'm a Widow	3:36	3,384
9	Fresh Threats, Salad Shooters and Zip Guns	1:51	1,988
10	Kick Me and Cancel	2:10	2,758
11	Other Dogs Remain	2:40	2,599
12	Kensington Cradle	1:50	2,331
13	Love Is Stronger Than Witchcraft	4:13	4,936
14	Hammer in Your Eyes	1:49	2,550
15	50-Year-Old Baby	2:14	1,881
16	I Surround You Naked	2:42	2,747
17	Cock of the Rainbow	1:41	2,528
18	Conquerer of the Moon	5:04	1,649
19	Blessed in an Open Head	2:57	2,466
20	A Boy in Motion	1:37	2,299
21	Denied	2:36	2,120
22	Light Show	2:30	1,937
23	I'm a Strong Lion	1:08	3,006
24	Payment for the Babies	2:06	2,218
25	Kingdom Without	2:29	2,198
26	Recovering	3:28	2,075

About this album

From a Compound Eye is a Robert Pollard CD and double LP released in 2006. Though Pollard had already released several albums under his own name, this album, being the first released after the 2004 dissolution of his longtime vehicle Guided by Voices, was considered to be the official commencement of his solo career.

For the album, Pollard drew on his backlog of unreleased material, as well as newly composed songs.