Funeral Mariachi - Sun City Girls
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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.
  • Record Label: Abduction
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Psychedelic/Garage
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  1. BBC Music
    Nov 18, 2010
    90
    Harnessing 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).
  2. All Music Guide
    Dec 16, 2010
    80
    A fitting final studio effort.
  3. The Wire
    Mar 1, 2011
    80
    The 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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  4. Uncut
    Dec 22, 2010
    80
    This is as riveting and beautiful a valedictory address as you could hope for from these underground heroes. [Jan 2011, p.95]
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  1. sharedsorrows
    9
    These Guys are Really Finger Lickin' Good - sharedsorrows.com - Though I imagine anyone that has found their way here already knows that. Besides, you have your own ears and can tell whether you 'like' this kinda muzic yourself (some review, huh?!). BUT for my money, they reminded me of Old Papa Zappa and the Mothers. Yes, His High Holy Insolence Himself ... BUT with their own sound ... and therefore, their own Souls! ... that which is all too missing in this Day in Age (if you can even call it that - And please get your electric, self-stim buns off the fire - people need to eat off of that!). So I thought I'd just mention my tremulous little thoughts, in passing ... just for the h of it!… Expand

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