David Grubbs and Ryley Walker: A Tap On The Shoulder (Husky Pants)

Inter-generational Chicago action!!

From the one-sheet:

“Mutual admiration society and David Grubbs and Ryley Walker had been taking notes on one another’s playing for some time before they hit the stage together on a couple of blistering occasions immediately pre-pandemic […] Studio sessions were clearly in the cards, and the result is A Tap on the Shoulder, a collection of duo performances that veers from crystalline instrumental compositions (‘A Tap on the Shoulder,’ ‘Accepting Most Plans,’ ‘Dorothy Kept’) to animated alien chatterfests (‘Leslie Steinberger’), and from ecstatic extrapolations charging this way and that (‘Pump Fake on the Death Rattle,’ ‘The Madman from Massachusetts in an Empty Bar’) to, I don’t know, words don’t do the trick (‘Uglification’) [...]
Electric guitars make electronic music.

Listen to A Tap on the Shoulder in the context of Ryley’s glorious Course in Fable; listento it in the context of Grubbs’s playing with Loren Connors, Jim O’Rourke, Taku Unami, and others; or listen to it as if you’ve never heard note one from these soulful odd birds, the two of them curiously, quixotically committed to working inside and beyond song form.”