New Califone - "Funeral Singers" (Stereogum Premiere)

I remember seeing Califone in Cleveland close to a decade ago and being struck by how a seated Tim Rutili and his fellow multi-instrumental bandmates mesmerized a young crowd who were most likely there to see the headliner, Modest Mouse. It was one of those performances you didn't want to end: Each player clearly had a deep sense of composition, collaboration and the subtleties that exists in all of that. There's been something impressively laidback and natural and also rigorously smart about Ru...

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