GASTR DEL SOL - "We Have Dozens of Titles" 3xLPGastr Del Sol We Have Dozens of Titles 3xLP (Drag City, 2024) Truly important stuff here, assembled with the utmost care and consideration. Been hearing mumblings about this for a long time now and it's a bit glorious to finally hold one in my hands. I urge you to purchase without further thought "Nearly twenty five years after disbanding, Gastr del Sol have unpacked their archive, stringing together an alternative view to their genre melting 1993

It’s been nearly 10 years since any of this material was commonly available

tense guitar and bass interplay-- but undeniably fun

You may have enjoyed Ian Teeple in action with Warm Bodies or The Natural Man Band

There were intense rehearsals where the band often lost track of time

according to Dale Williams

It’s the spiritual purgatory outlined by George Saunders in Lincoln in the Bardo funneled into a 90s flannel

Compared to Colley’s work

"Hot Stamper" is a montage of the many sources of technophony we encounter every day: while grocery shopping

" Twenty years in

” a funk-skimming jam whose chilly beat and blurry vocals suggest a haunted house dance party

" - Doug Mosurock (Heathen Disco)

Squalling saws and the detritus of a life abandoned and rediscovered in Waitati -- These all jostle to be heard over the murk and cassette hiss whether they deserve to be or not