With no less than Rick Moody, author of {-The Ice Storm} and {-Demonology}, collaborating on lyrics, as well as playing by John McEntire of Tortoise and M.C. Schmidt (aka Matmos), David Grubbs has fashioned a brilliant third album of neo-folk that is as wondrous as Tortoise's audio experiments and as thick with experience as Moody's novels. Musically, Rickets and Scurvy is closest to the solo output of the other half of Gastr del Sol, Jim O'Rourke, on albums like {^Eurek...   [ read more ]

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Throughout a diverse and prolific musical career, David Grubbs has remained a challenging, articulate, idiosyncratic and unique artist. Recent times have seen him work simultaneously on both records of songs and records of longer, more immersive instrumental pieces. "A Guess at the Riddle" falls into the former category. It's an accessible, playful, intelligent song-based record, perhaps his most ambitious and all-encompassing record to date, both sonically and lyrically, and also in terms of the flow and ...   [ read more ]

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Late in the career of Gastr del Sol, David Grubbs and Jim O'Rourke sought respite from their experimental habits. The group had spent five years deconstructing the song form. On compositions like 1996's "Our Exquisite Replica of 'Eternity'" (from Upgrade & Afterlife), they left little behind. Having reached a temporary dead end, they turned to more conventional song structures, adorning them with beautiful melodies. The resulting Camoufleur (the group's swan song) was the perfect balance ...   [ read more ]

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