Kevin Bronson on January 30th, 2015

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You didn’t expect Robert Pollard to go quietly into the night after last September’s announcement that Guided By Voices had broken up, did you? Of course not. Today he debuted another song by Ricket Wicky, an outfit he calls a “sophisticated arena rock band.” The album “I Sell the Circus” will be out Feb. 3 via Fire Records. “The band named Ricked Wicky is significant in that it is the very first name I created for a non-existent band in my early teens,” explains Pollard, who is joined by fellow Daytonian Nick Mitchell and multi-instrumentalist/producer Todd Tobias. It seems to have everything you love in every Robert Pollard project ever, including a sense of humor.

||| Stream: “Rotten Backboards” and “Mobility”