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- Summary: This is the final album for the rock trio who decided to end the band after the death of drummer Charles Gocher in 2007.
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- Record Label: Abduction
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Psychedelic/Garage
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Nov 18, 2010Harnessing those tropes to dexterous finger-picking and chiming Gamelan, along with the often jaw-dropping vocal delivery of Alan Bishop (his bravura performance on The Imam is right up there with his blood-curdling incantatory work on Master Musicians of Bukkake's People of the Drifting Houses) has resulted in Sun City Girls' most accessible and consistent album (a far cry from their puzzling and profligate series of Carnival Folklore Resurrection volumes).
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Nov 15, 2010They go out not with a bang or a whimper, but with a wide-eyed and confident work tinged with sadness, knowing they were part of something truly unique and amazing that met an untimely end.
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Nov 15, 2010Final statement Funeral Mariachi is a showcase of their lush, accessible side while remaining as peculiar as ever.
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Nov 15, 2010Funeral Mariachi, which is psychedelic, cinematic, droning, wayward, ritualistic, sometimes grating and often beautiful, sounds comfortably within its own language.
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Nov 18, 2010It's powerful, it's supremely accessible, and, in a kinder, more playful world, it could be NPR button music--or at least a life-changing stocking-stuffer for scores of Panda Bear fans.
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The WireMar 1, 2011The whole album feels like a coda, a soundtrack to the closing credits of a career that has taken them far beyond the exploratory punk of their roots. [Nov 2010, p.53]
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Dec 14, 2010It doesn't have to be anything more than the two things it certainly is: a tribute to a longtime bandmate and friend, one in which he gets to take part in spite of departing the planet, and a collection of songs which at different points are clever, funny, fulsome and moving.
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Jan 17, 2013
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