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Califone
All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
Genres: Alternative Rock, Special Interest, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (14) - Disc #1
1. Giving Away the Bride
2. Polish Girls
3. 1928
4. Funeral Singers
5. Snake's tooth = Protection Against Fever & Luck In Gambling
6. Buñuel
7. Ape-like
8. A Wish Made While Burning Onions Will Come True
9. Evidence
10. Alice Marble Gray
11. Salt
12. Krill
13. Seven, Fourteen, Or Twenty-One Knots
14. Better Angels

CD Details

All Artists: Califone
Title: All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: DEAD OCEANS
Original Release Date: 1/1/2009
Re-Release Date: 10/6/2009
Genres: Alternative Rock, Special Interest, Pop, Rock
Styles: Indie & Lo-Fi, Experimental Music, Blues Rock, Progressive, Progressive Rock
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 656605132822

Synopsis

Product Description

Califone is at the peak of its powers on All My Friends Are Funeral Singers, its sixth song based album. The long-awaited follow-up to 2006's acclaimed Roots and Crowns, the album is the strongest collection of songs in a career with no shortage of strength. TAll My Friends Are Funeral Singers is a dense collage of sounds, expertly formed into fully realized pop songs.

CD Reviews

Among their finest. . .

M. L. Williams | Georgia | 10/08/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is the kind of CD that reinvigorates the album as a relevant form, as its accomplishment builds with repeated listening. Tim Rutili is one of the most underrated singer-songwriters in indie music, and his phrase montages build to create an atmosphere out of the ghosts of America's secret vocabulary. With All My Friends Are Funeral Singers, the band achieves a mature, fully realized project, blending cooling Studebaker radiator syncopation with ball-peen hammer percussion, found noise and odd instruments underpinned by blues-folk string virtuosity and more than a few fine pop hooks."

Best album since Roomsound, maybe best yet.

S. Johnson | Missoula, MT USA | 01/23/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"At the risk of sounding pretentious, this album is sublime. This is possibly their most refined and on-point project yet. Like all Califone albums, it blows you away on the first listen, and only gets better with each successive listen. I've had it for about two weeks now and I'm finding it hard to tear myself away to listen to anything else.

As luck would have it, they're coming through Missoula on Feb. 7. To hell with the Super Bowl, I get to see Califone!"

Yes, again

Listener in Portland | Portland | 12/30/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"There is no one who sounds like Califone. And it is better as a whole album. So strange and confident, so unconscious of what might be hip or snag obvious attention. The lyrics are wonderful, the music constantly surprising and right. I daresay: better than Beck."