while other times sneak up on you (the unexpected punk rocker "Bombers")

a sweeping arrangement of breathtaking beauty

Nagasaki Mon Amour

corrosive 4-track fidelity found on her early records to the more unabashed art-pop of U

David Grubbs - The Ticket moonshiner while other times sneak upThis is David Grubbs' first solo album after the dissolution of the highly regarded Gastr Del Sol, his partnership with Jim O'Rourke. All the good stuff he brought to that group is here in abundance: Zukofsky esque poetics, hard minimalism, deft post Appalachian banjo and guitarsmanship from the main man, pop melodicism, punk attitude, wry humour and a squad of great fellow players including Josh Abrams, Jeb Bishop, Tony Conrad, Ernst Long Kirche,