Upgrade & Afterlife

Infobox Album |
Name = Upgrade & Afterlife
Type = Album
Artist = Gastr del Sol


Released = June 17, 1996
Recorded = ?
Genre = Rock
Length = 49:12
Label = Drag City
Producer = ?
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:4yfqoaqauijr link]
Last album = "The Harp Factory on Lake Street"
(1995)
This album = "Upgrade & Afterlife"
(1996)
Next album = "Camoufleur"
(1998)

"Upgrade & Afterlife" is a 1996 album by Gastr del Sol.

Track listing

# "Our Exquisite Replica of "Eternity":" –8:26
# "Rebecca Sylvester" – 3:53
# "The Sea Incertain"* – 6:12
# "Hello Spiral" –10:40
# "The Relay" – 5:49
# "Crappie Tactics" – 1:48
# "Dry Bones in the Valley (I Saw the Light Come Shining 'Round and 'Round) – 12:28

* Several sources (including the usually reliable Allmusic) misidentify track 3 as "The Sea "Un"certain." This title, correctly rendered, appears to refer playfully both to a track on Gastr's previous full-length release titled "The C in Cake" and to one of Gastr percussionist John McEntire's other bands, The Sea and Cake, a moniker derived from McEntire's mishearing of that title. The title "Our Exquisite Replica of "Eternity"" is derived from the name of a cheap perfume marketed in public bathroom vending machines; the track contains a sample of the music used in the 50s sci-fi classic The Incredible Shrinking Man.