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"Tintype's gutbucket guitar/drums blues ultimately swaggers to its own, rugged groove. The grime and aggression are offset by lonesome saloon ballads and stretches of mournful classical piano that suggest that, unlike the Stripes' Jack White, Black isn't joking about being down and angry." -- Toronto Star "Take the sonic minimalism of Young Marble Giants, add Andre Ethier's countrified lamenting and a dash of Sleater Kinney's anger, and you'll have a fairly accurate notion of what these Vancouver-based gals sound like." -- Chart Attack "Exceptional." -- TV Guide (HHHH) "Hit me hard with a girl who can whine. Vancouver two-piece The Pack A.D.'s first disc delivers solid blues-inspired songs from first riff to last. Becky Black has the essential rock `n' roll voice: she spits, she moans, she agonizingly teeters between feelings and then pushes herself over the edge." -- NOW Toronto Funeral Mixtape arrives hot on the heels of The Pack A.D.'s Mint Records debut Tintype. Recorded live off the floor to analog tape at The Hive Studios, Funeral Mixtape encapsulates the intensity and warmth of The Pack A.D.'s musical relationship. This studio production captures the power of Becky Black's vocals at their best (especially on tracks such as the New Orleans death march "Oh Be Joyful"). How can a duo generate such a massive sound? Becky Black's vocals have been compared to Janis Joplin, and the combined duo's live show to long established acts like The Black Keys. All comparisons aside, though, The Pack A.D. exhibits an ability to present the sound and vision of the blues in their own way: brooding, explosive, and unrestrained.