Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
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Long-anticipated following the critical success of previous long-player Roots and Crowns in 2006, Chicago’s Califone have rightly taken their time to deliver their sixth album. Unhurried and assured, All My Friends… embraces a greater variety of styles than before, while never losing sight of their strengths during such explorations. While the indie-rock influence of the band’s hometown is evident, so too are echoes from much further west – at times this record is reminiscent of Roger McGuinn or Crosby, Stills and Nash, if said artists were still relative young guns, and if they kept off the weed. Because Califone, you see, have their wits together. And despite occasional bows to contrivance, there are grooves in abundance, repetition utilised to drive points home. Ape-Like is virtually a work song, and Benuel, with a bit of spit and polish, could almost make it onto the Grand Ole Opry. Well, maybe that’s stretching it, but there is much to connect with....full text |
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| All My Friends Are Funeral Singers is Califone's seventh LP overall and first for Dead Oceans. It acts as the soundtrack to frontman Tim Rutili's film of the same name, and the band will be playing the album live along with the movie on the tour supporting it. The album is the follow-up to 2006's acclaimed Roots and Crowns....full text |
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| Califone tours with a new show that integrates the first full-length film by leader Tim Rutili, performing a live soundtrack as the film screens. The film and the CD, both called All My Friends Are Funeral Singers, were written at the same time, and incorporate many of the same characters and images...full text |
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