Sun City Girls

David Pescovitz 8:16 am Thu May 6, 2004

BB pal Erik Davis has posted the full text of a feature he wrote for The Wire about the Sun City Girls, the most eclectic, prolific, and weirdest cowpunkers the southwest has ever unleashed:

"Sun City Girls traffic with bizarre miscegenations, self-indulgent trash, and hardcore mystic exotica. Their sometimes garish album covers attack the eye with devils, yonis, sacred transvestites, and nubile native jailbait. Lyrics, song and album titles — 'Naga Smoke Signals,' 'The Genghis Necro-Nama-Khan,' 330,003 Crossdressers from Beyond the Rig Veda — can sound like the spontaneous verse of young poetes maudites tanked up on National Geographic cheesecake and A Pictorial History of Magic and the Supernatural. This lurid romance with the Other fuels some of their most incandescent sounds as well, a music of transport that explores Middle Eastern, Southeast Asian, and South American atmospheres with a passion composed equally of informed pleasure and the heedless appropriation of the strange. Looking high and low, far and wide, the Sun City Girls have sought the wellsprings of the weird, of what H.P. Lovecraft called outsideness, and when they have found them, they have taken what they wanted."

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