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

finds both players at their most adventurous

but essential character for a band

The Dedication Orchestra and (late husband) Keith Tippett's Tapestry

If there was a collective of iconoclasts

doom and death

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