David Grubbs is a Brooklyn college professor of music and literature with a shady past in Eighties hardcore punk.
On his sixth song-based solo release he takes trebly electric guitars and twangy acoustics in hand to play folksy arpeggios, furiously fuzzy modal speed-drones, bursts of taut sinewy math rock, and dainty miniatures of baroque complexity and curiously unashamed beauty.
Grubbs has self-consciously split his brain to exacerbate the essential creative conflict, the experimental academic battling the sentimental artist upon a darkling plain.
The listener wins again.
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Coxy, Dontstartmeoff.com
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Joe, Independent.co.uk
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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A D Ward, Twitter
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Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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Peter Ould, Youtube
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Genghis McKahn, Guardian.co.uk
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Yukio Mishima, dontstartmeoff.com
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Pudabaya, beexcellenttoeachother.com
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Neva2busy, dontstartmeoff.com
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Birmingham Sunday Mercury
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Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph
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Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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Anon, dontstartmeoff.com
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John Robins, Comedian
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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Joskins, Leeds Music Forum
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Spanner, dontstartmeoff.com
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Esme Folley, Actress, cellist, Twitter
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Bobby Bhoy, Twitter
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Johnny Kitkat, dontstartmeoff.com
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Gmanthedemon, bbc.co.uk
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Cabluigi, Guardian.co.uk
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Sweeping Curves, Twitter
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Wharto15, Twitter
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Brighton Argus
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Fairy Pingu, Twitter
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Gabrielle, Chortle.com
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Pudabaya, Twitter
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Brendon, Vauxhallownersnetwork.co.uk
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General Lurko 36, Guardian.co.uk
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Foxfoxton, Youtube
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Iain, eatenbymissionaries
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GRTak, finalgear.com
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Secretdeveloper, Youtube
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Alex Quarmby, Edfringe.com
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DVDhth's grandparents, Twitter
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Microcuts 22, Twitter
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Frankie Boyle, Comedian
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Anamatronix, Youtube