GASTR DEL SOL - Upgrade & Afterlife DLP Female-Fronted finds both players at their

finds both players at their most adventurous

This edition also comes with reflective sleeve notes from Vashti

the bands singer stayed in Kuwait after the recordings of the album and started pursuing a career outside the music industry although he kept on playing to this day with other bands in Kuwait in his spare time

but are also manipulated in subsequent editing to create bursts and distortions

and of peoples' wide eyed accepting silence

GASTR DEL SOL - Upgrade & Afterlife DLP Female-Fronted finds both players at theirWay back when, Upgrade & Afterlife was the umpteenth release from the individual and collective forces of David Grubbs (known then for Bastro, The Red Krayola, Codeine, Squirrel Bait) and Jim O"Rourke (known for O"Rourke), whose further history has since numbered at least another umpteen or so essential listens. What is it though, wrapped up in delectable sonic amber here, that defines this Upgrade? To be sure, we hear these young men dashing through