Gastr Del Sol- The Serpentine SimilarLabel: Dexter's Cigar Reissued 2025, Originally released 1993 Bastro was being reborn, with Grubbs on guitars, keyboards and vocals and Brown on bass. Playing in duo format opened up sound and intention, leaving the need for speed (and the stock in rock) out, while letting in an expanse of brooding, droning acoustic space that highlighted the songs serpentine shapes. This was something so radically different as to require a new calling card:

Bergman (previously of successful brother-sister duo Wild Belle) has released the high-streaming EP ‘Keep Those Teardrops From Falling’

Our Raw Heart is the band at their most aggressive

Gray Subviolet

The Second Star to the Right

-modern classical-pop

the search continues in this realm and in many others

Fortunately

but with its absence

unaccommodating tenacity that's hard to shake

The production is decidedly not slick yet the improvisational nature of the playing is sophisticated in it's simplicity

This fast-paced album features classic Dickies wise guy humor in tracks such as "She's a Hunchback" and revved up covers including Led Zeppelins' "Communication Breakdown

All Night Thing