All My Friends Are Funeral Singers

Califone's new album, All My Friends Are Funeral Singers, is full of layers and textures, offering endless depth, entire universes to lose yourself in - and beyond the thick spectrum of sound, they do something even more important: They write great songs. Califone stand at the peak of their powers All My Friends Are Funeral Singers, its sixth song-based album. The subtlety and detail of Califone's previous work is present here - the atmospheres are carefully nuanced, the percussion is both rattling and melodic, the melodies are rich and soulful, interspersed throughout softly strummed folk and electrified blues. The album is a dense collage of sounds, expertly formed into fully realized pop songs.