GASTR DEL SOL - Mirror Repair LP Reggae Far be it from us

Far be it from us to tell you that this is one of the best records of the year

recording cassettes under the guise of Musiikkivyöry (literally

but without the ultra-stripped-down sound that is (was

12 songs that mark the bands progression going from the early raw punk of 13 Songs and Repeater to the sophistication of Red Medicine

they invited Amanda MacKaye (Desiderata

GASTR DEL SOL - Mirror Repair LP Reggae Far be it from usGastr Del Sol emerged from the remains of Bastro in 1992 with the brooding, mostly drumless album, The Serpentine Similar. This represented an unlikely evolution from the fury of Bastro, but evolution was only getting started and unlikely was one of the ongoing principles in Gastr Del Sols approach. Before the sessions for the second album, Bundy Brown left the group and David Grubbs asked Jim ORourke to come play. 1994s Crookt, Crackt Or Fly tangled