Sold Date: August 13, 2014
Start Date: July 27, 2014
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Califone -
All My Friends Are Funeral Singers

2 × Vinyl LP
Dead Oceans ‎ (DOC028)
2009 Release

- Gatefold Jacket
- Side "D" Recording is exclusive to this 'Vinyl release' and non-CD

Near Mint!

Tracklist
A1 Giving Away The Bride
A2 Polish Girls
A3 1928
A4 Funeral Singers
B1 Snake's Tooth = Protection Against Fever And Luck In Gambling
B2 Buñuel
B3 Ape-like
B4 A Wish Made While Burning Onions Will Come True
B5 Evidence
B6 Alice Marble Gray
C1 Salt
C2 Krill
C3 Seven, Fourteen, Or Twenty-One Knots
C4 Better Angels
D1 Lunar H.

Tim Rutili's Califone:
had been mixing trad-minded folk-blues flavors with more experimental inclinations for a good decade when they recorded ALL MY FRIENDS ARE FUNERAL SINGERS, and the combination has grown increasingly seamless along the way. The electric drones, scrapes, buzzes, and squalls of avant-garde abandon are not isolated occurrences that exist outside the structure of the songs; they're encompassed by the structures. If anything, ALL MY FRIENDS ARE FUNERAL SINGERS is a more lambent effort than its predecessors, but one that feels fully a part of the band's evolutionary progress. The marimba-like tones of "Krill," for example, bear echoes of Psychic TV's "The Orchids," covered by Califone on their previous album, ROOTS & CROWNS, and the ambient folk side of the band's musical personality has been more pronounced with each release. Even the most overtly experimental moments on the album often feel homemade and organic--more like madmen clanging around in an underground cave than sonic scientists engaged in academic exercises. Ostensibly, the big news item about ALL MY FRIENDS ARE FUNERAL SINGERS is the fact that it's the musical companion to a film of the same name, directed and written by Rutili, about a woman living in a house full of ghosts. On tour, the band's plan would be to provide a live soundtrack to the film. This isn't their first venture into film scores, but even if it were, the real question is whether or not the album stands up on its own. It does, as it's filled with engagingly warm-sounding tunes mating melodic accessibility with a lyrical evanescence powered by the same kind of poetic dream logic that's cropped up in Califone's concepts before. So do those voices and sounds that occasionally fly in from out of nowhere come from the film? Who cares? They work within the music, and for the listener's immediate purposes, that's what matters.

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