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All My Friends Are Funeral Singers

Califone

All My Friends Are Funeral Singers

Latest slice of experimental post-rock from the Chicago outfit

ADM rating[?]

6.7

Label
Dead Oceans
UK Release date
06/10/2009
  1. 8.1 |   Pitchfork

    Califone's never been the type of band to write melodies you can sing along with, and this is no exception-- Rutili's soft and ragged singing is, as ever, another repeated element, interlocking with the rough acoustic guitar playing, scraping violin, junkyard percussion, and scouring electronics to create something hypnotic.
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  2. 8.0 |   Uncut

    Print edition only

  3. 7.0 |   The Quietus

    ...they clearly know their way round the annals of the American folk music traditions, and could play it with an authentic hickory bat if they wanted, but they have a sense of mischief (masquerading as seriousness) that leads them to scribble on the rules
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  4. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    It has a complex, overarching concept for those that want that sort of thing. It’s also an easy, melodic and lightly experimental folk record
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  5. 6.0 |   Q

    Print edition only

  6. 6.0 |   Mojo

    Print edition only


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