Album
All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
2009 · Rock
Rare pressing on Gatefold
All My Friends Are Funeral Singers is an Alt/Indie album by Califone, originally released in 2009. On Gatefold: 4 pressings tracked.
About
It’s for good reason that the <i>New York Times</i> used the word “enthralling” to describe Califone’s 2006 <i>Roots & Crowns</i>. The Chicago band has long worked with sounds rooted in Americana and folk, nurtured on post-rock and experimental indie noodling, and <i>Roots & Crowns</i> was a crowning moment, indeed. <i>All My Friends Are Funeral Singers</i> is just as satisfying, spectacularly constructed with loving care to every detail, be it craftily stuttering static, a perfectly placed bit of “found” noise, or darkly evocative strings that avoid weepiness. Califone songs are often equal parts masquerade and bold statement, and that’s what makes listening so pleasurable. “Polish Girls” coalesces various textures and sounds into a near-rock melody, just before it dissolves and morphs into the lovely and delicate “1928”; a kalimba (African thumb piano) transforms into a mewling, hillbilly pastiche of stringed instruments on “Salt.” The hand-clap-and-foot-stomp bite of “Ape-like” emerges from the faintly Wilco-flavored “Buñuel,” but gives way to 44 seconds of atmospherics before the breathless and fragile “Evidence” floats into the ether. Leave your ears wide open.
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1Giving Away The Bride
- A2Polish Girls
- A31928
- A4Funeral Singers
Side B
- B1Snake's Tooth = Protection Against Fever And Luck In Gambling
- B2Buñuel
- B3Ape-like
- B4A Wish Made While Burning Onions Will Come True
- B5Evidence
- B6Alice Marble Gray
Side C
- C1Salt
- C2Krill
- C3Seven, Fourteen, Or Twenty-One Knots
- C4Better Angels
Side D
- D1Lunar H.
Sound DNA
- Alt/Indie
- Indie Rock
- lo-fi
- wistful
- poetic
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Ben MassarellaPERCUSSION, HANDCLAPS, DRUMS, STEEL DRUMS , FIDDLE , VIBRAPHONE PERCUSSION, HANDCLAPS, DRUMS, STEEL DRUMS, FIDDLE , VIBRAPHONE
- Joe AdamikDRUMS, PERCUSSION, LOOPS, BASS CLARINET, MARIMBA, HANDCLAPS, MARIMBA , CLARINET, SYNTHESIZER , PIANO, ORGAN , PIANO , CELESTA , ORGAN, ARRANGED BY , MBIRA, MELODICA, MBIRA , GROOVEBOX , DOUBLE BASS , STEEL DRUMS , MARIMBA DRUMS, PERCUSSION, LOOPS, BASS CLARINET, SYNTH , MARIMBA, HANDCLAPS, MARIMBA , CLARINET, STYLOPHONE, PIANO, ORGAN , PIANO , CELESTA , ORGAN, ARRANGED BY , MBIRA, MELODICA, MBIRA , SYNTH , BASS , STEEL DRUMS, MARIMBA
- Brian ReitzellPIANO
- Fredrick Lonberg-HolmCELLO
- Gillian LiseeVOCALS
- Jim BeckerGUITAR , HANDCLAPS, GUITAR, VIOLIN, THUMB PIANO, VIOLIN , BANJO, ELECTRIC GUITAR, FIDDLE, ORGAN, VOCALS, MANDOLIN, PIANO, EFFECTS, ELECTRONICS , ELECTRIC PIANO, BASS, SYNTHESIZER , TAPE GUITAR , HANDCLAPS, GUITAR, MBIRA , AUDIO GENERATOR , VIOLIN, BANJO, ELECTRIC GUITAR, FIDDLE, ORGAN, VOCALS, MANDOLIN, PIANO, EFFECTS, ELECTRIC PIANO, BASS, KEYBOARDS , TAPE
- Justin AmolschFRENCH HORN
- Katie ToddVOCALS
- Reid CokerVOCALS
- Ryan HembreyBASS, DOUBLE BASS, PIANO
- Sam BeamVOCALS
- Sarah BeamVOCALS
- Tim RutiliVOCALS, PIANO, ELECTRIC PIANO , HANDCLAPS, GUITAR, ORGAN , AUDIO GENERATOR , LOOPS, UKULELE VOCALS, PIANO, ELECTRIC PIANO , HANDCLAPS, GUITAR, ORGAN , ELECTRONICS , LOOPS, UKULELE
Rare pressing on Gatefold · 4 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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