We Have Dozens Of Titles
DRAG CITY
REISSUE OF THE MONTH
9/10
DAVID GRUBBS has been thinking about this release from the moment Gastr Del Sol ceased operating, but a few things had to happen in the ensuing 26 years. For one, Grubbs and Jim O’Rourke had to reconnect in person in Tokyo back in 2016. Then, an excellent live recording of the band’s final performance was unearthed from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation archives, captured in 1997 at the Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville in rural Quebec.
But let’s travel back even further, to 1991, when Gastr Del Sol emerged out of Bastro, Grubbs’force for anxious, introspective, quiet-loud-quiet post-rock). With each group Grubbs’ interests became more expansive yet more esoteric and less overtly rock.
