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  "Freaky B.C. twang-rock troupe the Stolen Organ Family Band has long showcased surprising ambition, especially for banditos writing, recording and releasing albums from home. Cooking with Joyboy, the follow up to 2009’s greatest hits compilation, Horse Treats, finds these Ween-loving weirdos dropping their grandest statement to date, a near hour-long epic complete with string arrangements, although these are likely as canned as the band’s trademark trash-fi keyboard beats.
  
  Opener “A Horse Don’t Need Whiskey (No More)” sets the tone, as duelling vocalists Conor Mack and Kelly Badger harmonize howls and honey-sweet croons over a rollicking backdrop reminiscent of Yello’s “Oh Yeah” (a.k.a. the Ferris Bueller’s Day Off theme). Other highlights include the seven-minute slacker slow-jam “I Don’t Care About Anything,” hushed ode to infants “Here Comes the Baby” and the frenetically paced punnery of “Francis Alexander Cassiopia.” Best of all is the Stevie Wonder cover “Never Had a Dream Come True,” a lovingly faithful reading despite its oddball instrumentation. Joy rarely sounds this bizarre."
  
  -Jesse Locke, FFWD, July 2010 ... more
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