Review:
'Grubbs, David'
'The Plain Where the Palace Stood'
- Album: 'The Plain Where the Palace Stood'
- Label: 'Drag City'
- Genre: 'Indie'
- Release Date: '15th April 2013'- Catalogue No: 'DC551'
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Our Rating:
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The 11 tracks on ‘The Plain Where the Palace Stood’ certainly represent an eclectic mix, spanning Pavement-like slacker indie rock and slanted alt-pop to far-out experimental drones. The strolling post-rock instrumental stylings of ‘Super-Adequate’ ; ‘Second salutation’ is a psych-folk instrumental, while ‘The Hesitation waltz’ could easily be an outtake from ‘Crooked Rain’. ‘A View of the Mesa’ sounds like Hex-era earth Earth.
The third and final experimental ‘Salutation’ piece draws the album to a close with a 7-minute rumbling drone.
It’s sometimes difficult to know exactly where Grubbs is coming from, but then, why should anyone need to know? ‘The Plain…’ is the sound of an artist reusing to be bound to genre, and with interesting and occasionally brilliant results.
David Grubbs Online
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author: Christopher Nosnibor
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