Saturday, September 24, 2011

Sun City Girls, Kaliflower (side A)

1994's Kaliflower includes a cross-section of many of Sun City Girls' approaches.  Frenetic guitar playing that borders on punk rock energy and volume is juxtaposed with tracks that include field recordings from Southeast Asia.  Long-winded rants set to music collide with intricate and detailed songs that seem to have grown in a non-existent culture.  Of course the sound quality is inconsistent and the mastering can be unimpressive, but Kaliflower captures the diversity and magic of three massively talented musicians.  I'm not sure which is more off-putting, the horribly clashing color scheme of the front cover or the genuinely unpleasant image.

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