SML - How You Been LP Color:Plankton (Transparent Light Green) Vinyl "Whistle from Above" is David

"Whistle from Above" is David Grubbs" first Drag City release in over a decade and his first-ever instrumental album for the label

the six songs hit a highly satisfying mark of fine-wrought arrangements riddled with strange artefacts ornamenting the ether

it felt like the record we were waiting for to map out our tangled reactions to an uninvited reality

the idyllic sand and surf clashing with the harsh concrete and bricks of the streets

east to west coast

SML - How You Been LP Color:Plankton (Transparent Light Green) Vinyl "Whistle from Above" is DavidSML is the quintet of bassist Anna Butterss, synthesist Jeremiah Chiu, saxophonist Josh Johnson, percussionist Booker Stardrum, and guitarist Gregory Uhlmann. Their second album, How You Been, finds the supergroup of prolific composer producers pushing ever further into the hyperrealist, collectivist approach to music creation nascently explored on their debut Small Medium Large, which was lauded as "awe inspiring" by Glide, "exuberant" by the Los