***This is David's first solo release in seven years, and first straight-up DC release in over a decade (Blue Chopstocks have done the honors in our absence), but it's a record built on the concept of collaborative duos and other small groups. Here, David's working with combinations involving Rhodri Davies, Andrea Belfi, Nikos Veliotis, Nate Wooley, and Cleek Schrey.
LP $27.85
02/28/2025
***Drag City drops the sixth and latest DAVID GRUBBS pop album, The Plain Where the Palace Stood, which finds David once again twining together the diverse strands of his vast interests. Working with ANDREA BELFI (drums, electronics) and STEFANO PILIA (guitar) creates a sympathetic groupthink that David expects more and greater from in the years to come. The welcome return of his distinctive overdriven guitar tone is a highlight of the record. And C. SPENCER YEH (BURNING STAR CORE) plays some absolutely apeshit violin on two tracks. As in the days of GASTR DEL SOL songs float in idiosyncratic, exceptionally unhurried arrangements. The Plain Where the Palace Stood features vocals on just four of the eleven tracks, yet the album as whole flows—breathes—effortlessly alongside the most acclaimed releases of his extended catalog, not to mention those of his contemporaries and kindred artists—Oren Ambarchi, Scott Walker, Talk Talk, and Sunn O))). (STREET DATE - 4/16/2013)
LP $21.50
04/16/2013
CD $13.75
04/16/2013
***The latest solo album from GASTR DEL SOL member and Blue Chopsticks label chief, DAVID GRUBBS, and his first song-oriented album since 2002's Rickets & Scurvy. Twelve masterful tracks—including a cover of Mayo Thompson's "Magnificence As Such"—that at times blend acoustic instrumentation with electronics, and at others go full tilt with a strong backing band. Includes guest contributions from NIKO VELIOTIS, MATMOS, ADAM PIERCE, THOMAS BELHOM, and RICK MOODY (who also wrote lyrics for two of the songs).
CD $13.75
06/29/2004
***The follow-up to 2000's The Spectrum Between album from GASTR DEL SOL member and Blue Chopsticks label chief, DAVID GRUBBS. Ten songs that rock harder than any of his previous efforts, featuring backing from JOHN McENTIRE, MATMOS, NOEL AKCHOTE, DAN BROWN, and NICOLAS VERNES, and lyrical collaborations from RICK MOODY, author of The Ice Storm and Demonology.
CD $13.75
06/04/2002
***A companion piece to The Thicket album, and a musical adaptation of STEPHEN CRANE's short story The Blue Hotel from the adventurous and multi-talented mind of guitar plucker DAVID GRUBBS. A seventeen-minute morität (the label's word, not ours) scored for three voices: The Narrator (STPEHEN PRINA), The Swede (GRUBBS), and The Cowboy (SASHA ANDRES). Features music performed by Grubbs, cellist DIDIER PETIT, trombonists YVES ROBERT & THIERRY MADIOT, and saxman QUENTIN ROLLET. Included on this disc is a reworking of Grubbs' solo piece "Onion Orange" featuring Rollet, NOEL AKCHOTE, JOHN McENTIRE, and DAN BROWN.
CD $11.25
12/19/2000