Prismrose is a nearly wordless collection of six pieces for electric guitar,
all given real time
to breathe and mutate. It’s an album that documents what an electric guitar
sounds like
in David Grubbs’s hands — with Eli Keszler dropping by to pummel
some drums.
It comes to us from a stellar run of expansive, hands-thinking hands-puzzling
guitar music
that began with the stylistic pivot of Grubbs’s solo records.
The remainder of the album is set unambiguously in the present moment and
this suite of
three instrumentals sails off the edge of the world with the breezy, eminently
whistleable
anthem ‘The Bonsai Waterfall.