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  • Summary: The compilation of rare tracks and previously unreleased live recordings from David Grubbs and Jim O'Rourke when they were part of experimental Chicago rock band, Gastr del Sol.
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  • Record Label: Drag City
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Post-Rock, Experimental Rock, Instrumental Rock, Math Rock
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  1. Positive: 6 out of 6
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  1. Jun 17, 2024
    90
    O’Rourke mastered, and in some cases remastered, all the music and it sounds appropriately fantastic. .... There’s a real narrative sense that their story has come full circle, but naturally it’s presented in this abstracted way, intentionally sequenced to feel like a film presenting flashbacks, in Grubbs’ view. [Jun 2024, p.40]
  2. Jun 17, 2024
    84
    More than 25 years later, O’Rourke and Grubbs have polished and stitched together every scrap and forgotten rarity into one final album, closing off their beloved project as finely as a tape loop.
  3. Jun 17, 2024
    80
    We Have Dozens of Titles offers a sense that their state of perpetual metamorphosis actually went even deeper than what was shown on their widely adored studio records.
  4. The Wire
    Jun 17, 2024
    80
    We Have Dozens Of Titles is a view into a fascinating kind of processing, digesting and inventing. The results exist outside of even microgenre, flummoxing the desire to categorise at every turn. [Jun 2024, p.68]
  5. Mojo
    Jun 17, 2024
    80
    Not ideal for newcomers, perhaps, but a recumbent feast for fans. [Jul 2024, p.101]
  6. Jun 17, 2024
    78
    We Have Dozens of Titles stands out as an artifact of a midwestern avant-garde landmark that is just as essential to understanding today’s most out-there music as any other