Chicago experimental indie rock duo Gastr del Sol (David Grubbs and Jim O’Rourke) have announced their first album since the ’90s, We Have Dozens of Titles, which will be out May 24 via Drag City.
Don’t get too excited — the album is an “assembly of previously uncollected studio recordings and beautifully captured unreleased live performances” which, according to Drag City’s mellifluous press release, “forms a spacious ode to the flux that was their métier; a further set of reinventions that continue to alter the manner in which we hear music, and literally everything else!” Still, it’s cool they’re going through the archives.
You can check out a live version of “The Seasons Reverse,” which is from Gastr del Sol’s final show at the 1997 Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville, and had been kept in the CBC’s archives. Listen to that and check out We Have Dozens of Titles‘ tracklist and artwork below.
We Have Dozens of Titles
1. The Seasons Reverse (live)
2. Quietly Approaching
3. Ursus Arctos Wonderfilis (live)
4. At Night and at Night
5. Dead Cats in a Foghorn
6. The Japanese Room at La Pagode
7. The Bells of St. Mary’s
8. Blues Subtitled No Sense of Wonder (live)
9. 20 Songs Less
10. Dictionary of Handwriting (live)
11. The Harp Factory on Lake Street
12. Onion Orange (live)