Thick Rich and Delicious

by Guided by Voices

Type: Album
Released: 31 October 2025
Label: Guided By Voices Inc.
Country: United States
Length: 37:22
Community rating: 3.79/5 from 6 ratings

Artists on this release: Bobby Bare Jr., Doug Gillard, Robert Pollard, Kevin March, Mark Shue

Album Notes & Community Reviews

On 'Thick Rich and Delicious', Guided by Voices bridges eras by combining newly penned Robert Pollard compositions with unrecorded songs from the band's early years. Recorded live in the studio with producer Travis Harrison, the album captures the seasoned lineup's energetic chemistry through a collection of characteristically concise and hook-filled power pop tracks. The result is a refined yet raw sound that emphasizes muscular guitar work, crisp rhythms, and Pollard's surrealist lyrical snapshots.

Genres

Descriptors: lo-fi, unpolished, short-form, melodic, idiosyncratic

Tracklist

Babies and Gentlemen (01:20)
(You Can't Go Back To) Oxford Talawanda (02:35)
Phantasmagoric Upstarts (02:52)
Lucy's World (02:36)
Our Man Syracuse (02:28)
Mother John (02:38)
Dance of the Picnic Ants (01:27)
Xeno Urban (03:21)
A Tribute to Beatle Bob (02:46)
Replay (02:41)
Siren (02:37)
The Lighthouse Resurrection (02:12)
A. Glum Swoboda (03:26)
Ozark Ivanho (01:14)
Captain Kangaroo Won the War (03:09)

Credits

Bobby Bare Jr. - backing vocals, vocals, guitar
Doug Gillard - electric guitar, guitar
Kevin March - drums
Robert Pollard - lead vocals, vocals, artwork, layout, art direction [art department], written-by
Mark Shue - bass guitar, bass
Travis Harrison - production, mastering, producer
Joe Patterson (3) - art direction [art department], layout
Vince Williams (7) - art direction [art department]
Sarah Zade-Pollard - art direction [art management]
Joe Habachy - legal
David Newgarden - management
Eric Weiss (3) - management [business management], management [business]
Matt Davis (3) - management [rockathon records]
Mike Lipps - management [rockathon records]
DP - lacquer cut by
Mitch Mitchell (2) - written-by