A Guess At the Riddle
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Album • Jun 23 / 2004 • 12 songs, 43m 36s • 73%
Singer-Songwriter
Contemporary Folk
It's the damn-straightest release of David Grubbs' solo career, as noted by the artist himself. Got a chubby? Get your fix with this Grubbsy...
7.4
/ 10
Ex-Gastr del Sol member eases further into the deep-end of his pristine poppiness, again working with The Ice Storm author Rick Moody, as well as Matmos, Mice Parade's Adam Pierce, Calexico collaborator Thomas Belhom, Bar/None vocalist Hannah Marcus, and others.
On A Guess at the Riddle, David Grubbs reunites with his Rickets & Scurvy collaborator Rick Moody, and once again, folk and folk-rock form the backbone of the pair's elliptically literate songs.