On Braintrust of Fiends and Werewolves the Buenos Aires-based Alan
Courtis—composer and artist, Reynols mainstay, prolific collaborator heads to the studio in Brooklyn with David Grubbs, himself in unprecedented form after a wild run of duos with Ryley Walker, Manuel Mota, and Jan St. Werner.

Anyone who’s scratched the surface of Alan’s discography knows he’s a monster guitarist (dig, for example, his duo
with Tetuzi Akiyama), a sensitive monster guitarist and a monster of sensitivity, period. Evidently those endless hours of playing guitar while watching television in 2020 and beyond did Grubbs good—like Erik Satie deciding in middle age to study medieval music

Alan Courtis: electric and acoustic guitars
David Grubbs: electric and acoustic guitars

Cover image: Graham Lambkin, Silk Lion (2018)