"Uniting where you come from - your roots - with what you strive to be or what you reinvent yourself to become - crowns," explains Califone's Tim Rutili. "At the bottom of these songs are the memories and images you sift through in the process." Imagery of rebirth comes up often on this CD. Limitations, obstructions, darkness, and the new possibilities they illuminate is what Roots And Crowns is all about. The LP is limited to 1,000 copies and comes in a jacket hand-screened by Tim Rutili.

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Picking up where 2003's critically acclaimed "Quicksand/Cradlesnakes" left off, the songs on this record combine the band's pop-oriented qualities with their spaced-out ethereal thoughts. This beautifully lush and patient masterpiece was influenced by Captain Beefheart's "Mirror Man," but was inspired by Tim Rutili's recurring dream of a giant half-man/half-bird character. "Heron King Blues" brings together numerology, bird references, wartime tension, filthy rock, and tender mercy to form Califone's most ...   [ read more ]

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Order All My Friends Are Funeral Singers and receive a link to download the MP3s for free immediately after checkout! Order All My Friends Are Funeral Singers and get this 12"x18" silkscreened poster for free! While supplies last. 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 s...   [ read more ]

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