Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to another episode of "When Folk Meets Academia"! In tonight's installment, Professor Grubbs will attempt to stretch the formula that carried 2000's worthwhile The Spectrum Between one step further, by adding glitchy electronics to his trademark flashy acoustic guitar stylings and alternately whimsical and impenetrable lyrics.

For Rickets & Scurvy, Grubbs has enlisted quite a number of insanely talented individuals-- drummer John McEntire, who chews up polyrhythms like they were Polly-O string cheese, undisputed lord and master of exotic punctuation and jazz guitar Noël Akchoté, veteran producer and charming Frenchman Nicolas Vernhes, and the much-lauded electronic duo Matmos.