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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Carla, St Albans, Dailymail.co.uk
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Anonymous, don'tstartmeoff.com
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Maninabananasuit, Guardian.co.uk
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Johnny Kitkat, dontstartmeoff.com
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Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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Genghis McKahn, Guardian.co.uk
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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General Lurko 36, Guardian.co.uk
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Henry Howard Fun, Twitter
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Tweeter Kyriakou, Twitter
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Brendon, Vauxhallownersnetwork.co.uk
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John Robins, Comedian
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Birmingham Sunday Mercury
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Peter Ould, Twitter
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Al Murray, Comedian
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Meanstreetelite, Peoplesrepublicofcork
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Guest, Dontstartmeoff.com
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Anonymous, The Northfield Patriot
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Ishamayura Byrd, Twitter
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Microcuts 22, Twitter
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Spanner, dontstartmeoff.com
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Neva2busy, dontstartmeoff.com
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Tres Ryan, Twitter
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Dave Wilson, Chortle.com
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Jackmumf, Twitter
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Stokeylitfest, Twitter
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Joe, Independent.co.uk
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Mini-x2, readytogo.net