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Is All Over the Map

by Giant Sand

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Overall Rating: 2.5463 Is All Over the Map is ranked overall as 2.5463 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 3.0100 Is All Over the Map has an avg. critic score of 3.0100 out of 4 stars

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Stylus Magazine

If prolificacy can be viewed as a kind of virility, then Giant Sandâs Howe Gelb might be the alpha male to end all alpha males. ...more

Rolling Stone

Giant Sand boss Howe Gelb sighs his lyrics like Harry Dean Stanton on downers while he delivers scorching, venomous guitar over his cow-punk band's grooves. ...more

PopMatters

Despite the title of this album, desert denizen Howe Gelb's musical collective has remained remarkably consistent over the years, sounding pretty much the same no matter who his core band members are (for a long time his rhythm section was Joey Burns and John Convertino, who spun off to form Calexico, on this album it's John Parish and Thøger Lun ...more

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Pitch Fork Media

If you're a recent convert to what has been dubbed the New Weird America, permit me to fill you in: Howe Gelb's been living here for years. Both as a prolific solo artist and with his long-running combo Giant Sand, Gelb has created a fascinating ...read the complete review at Pitch Fork Media

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Dusted Magazine

I realized recently � with some chagrin � that in reviewing Howe Gelb�s music twice before (his solo effort The Listener and The Band of Blacky Ranchette�s Still Lookin� Good to Me ) I trotted out the same clich� on both occasions. Thankfully, on his...read the complete review at Dusted Magazine

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