David Grubbs - C/D S/D POO

his lyrics have been ridiculed wide and far... I don't mind them at all...

his guitar rhythm and style segues with my psyche, the later era non-improv textures are MPB filtered through Louisville hardcore.

Grubbs sounds like an indie kid trying to play the bossa. It's an interesting technique, I suppose.

Cole, search the diadic guitar, swirling arrangements, and postivitely inward/outward tropicalismic lyrical nature of Gastr's "Seasons Reverse" and Grubbs' "Whirlwheek" and "Show Me Who To Love".

New song on Drag City site sounds nice, at this hour (Belfi/Grubbs/Pilia vinyl-only thing).

http://www.dragcity.com

https://amplify2020.bandcamp.com/album/the-snake-on-its-tail-the-furthest-farthest

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.

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).

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.

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...

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.)

strong agree re: guess at the riddle. terrific record

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).

New album with Alan Courtis of Reynols is a gem https://huskypantsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/braintrust-of-fiends-and-werewolves

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

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.

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.

Creep Mission is a sweet album, and Prism Rose is underrated. Eli Kessler is a great match for Grubbs' fluid and concise electric guitar playing. DG sings on only one song, on Prism Rose.

Listening to Whistle from Above now, there are some interesting guest contributions (5 add'l players) .. most of the songs sound like duos (no lyrics). it sounds fresh and inspired, for the most part. i'm glad that he's still making and releasing new music.

sorry, *Kessler
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Keszler