― gygax! (i forgot my blog password), Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― frankE (frankE), Friday, 30 July 2004 05:01 (nineteen years ago) link
New song on Drag City site sounds nice, at this hour (Belfi/Grubbs/Pilia vinyl-only thing).
http://www.dragcity.com
― Can you keep up? (Cheetah), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 07:42 (thirteen years ago) link
https://amplify2020.bandcamp.com/album/the-snake-on-its-tail-the-furthest-farthest
― jon abbey, Sunday, 5 April 2020 07:22 (four years ago) link
Wow--thanks for posting about and putting on/changing your regular course of label/festival admin to work on this project; looking fwd to digging into a bunch of these DLs.
― Cysteine Chapo (Craig D.), Sunday, 5 April 2020 07:57 (four years ago) link
my pleasure! support the musicians if you can, there are direct PayPal links for all pieces on both the FB page (the main place I am doing this, so I can do intros for each piece) and the blogspot page (https://amplify2020.blogspot.com).
― jon abbey, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 01:42 (four years ago) link
This seems like a short thread. He's been someone i've known about for a long time but i've only known specific tracks, rather than albums.
Posts about him and Gastr del Sol seem to provoke mixed reaction elsewhere. Someone says 'such quintessential 90s Wire music' (or similar) on another thread, and though i fully recognise this sense - think i first heard him on a Wire Tapper CD! - there's been enough time past that that's ok with me right now.
― ionjusit (P. Flick), Thursday, 7 September 2023 20:29 (nine months ago) link
Gastr were, along with Sonic Youth and Stereolab, a huge gateway band for me in terms of openly talking about (and often also reissuing!) their influences.
I'd recommend a first full listen to either "Upgrade and Afterlife" or "Camoufleur", depending on if you're up for their harsher or slightly poppier output...
― If I luge, if I luge, if I luge you on the track (Craig D.), Thursday, 7 September 2023 21:59 (nine months ago) link
A Guess at the Riddleholds up very well, the centerpiece being the timely epic "Hurricane Season" (co-produced by erstwhile ILXor Drew Daniel of Matmos.)
― henry s, Thursday, 7 September 2023 22:27 (nine months ago) link
strong agree re: guess at the riddle. terrific record
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 7 September 2023 22:52 (nine months ago) link
I can't remember if I've heard that one, but I quite liked his string of song-based albums before that (The Thicket, The Spectrum Between, and Rickets & Scurvy).
― jaymc, Friday, 8 September 2023 00:33 (nine months ago) link
New album with Alan Courtis of Reynols is a gem https://huskypantsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/braintrust-of-fiends-and-werewolves
― Composition 40b (Stew), Friday, 8 September 2023 08:32 (nine months ago) link
Hardly needed to check to know it was Graham Lambkin artwork
It was seeing that Steve Roden was involved with Guess at the Riddle which prompted my revive
― ionjusit (P. Flick), Friday, 8 September 2023 09:12 (nine months ago) link
search: His double ep with Avey Tare (yes, really). Has a really nice piano ditty on it. Speaking of which, also search his debut solo "banana cabbage" for more piano goodness.
Grubbs is great, definitely see him perform if you ever get the chance, he's very charming.
― H.P, Friday, 8 September 2023 12:55 (nine months ago) link
https://fatcatrecords.bandcamp.com/album/split-series-16
Codeine search: Barely Real "W." (*Grubbs solo piano), The White Birch "Wyrd" (2nd guitar) & "Tom" (2nd guitar)
*Codeine had asked Grubbs to transcribe "Wyrd" (a Louisville inspired post-rock guitar song) into a piano piece.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 8 September 2023 15:14 (nine months ago) link