Gastr Del Sol
$49.99
Audiopile Review: Some groups start out determined to avoid musical clichés at all costs. Sonic Youth and Scritti Politti are two acts that set out with this modus operandi. As members of those legendary ensembles would doubtless tell you, this is a fundamentally unsustainable artistic strategy. It is, however, a...
$39.99
Audiopile Review: Chicago-based duo Gastr Del Sol had an extraordinary avant rock pedigree. David Grubbs was a member of Squirrel Bait and Bastro before forming Gastr around 1993 to focus on the avoidance of anything vaguely resembling a rock cliché. He was soon joined by Jim O’Rourke, who was and...
$89.99
Audiopile Review: Gastr del Sol was very much a part of the late-80s-early-90s stream of leftfield American rock that came out of Louisville, Kentucky, and made its home in Chicago. The band grew from David Grubbs’s power trio Bastro. When the rhythm section left to concentrate on inventing Tortoise, Grubbs...
