GASTR DEL SOL - Upgrade & Afterlife DLP Minimal Also included is John Hawkes’

Also included is John Hawkes’ original song “Down With Mary

while Nick Drake also recorded it privately

pushing at the edges of the map into unexplored territory: Here be monster jams

Johnson describes the arrangements this way

GASTR DEL SOL - Upgrade & Afterlife DLP Minimal Also included is John Hawkes’Way back when, Upgrade & Afterlife was the umpteenth release from the individual and collective forces of David Grubbs (known then for Bastro, The Red Krayola, Codeine, Squirrel Bait) and Jim O"Rourke (known for O"Rourke), whose further history has since numbered at least another umpteen or so essential listens. What is it though, wrapped up in delectable sonic amber here, that defines this Upgrade? To be sure, we hear these young men dashing through