Torch of the Mystics

Sun City Girls - Torch of the Mystics
Critic Score
Based on 2 reviews
1990 Ratings: #27 / 370
User Score
Based on 85 ratings
1990 Rank: #116
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CRITIC REVIEWS

90
Pitchfork

Torch of the Mystics is Sun City Girls’ best-loved album. It's replete with moments of hypnotic tunefulness stretched into songs that feel as classic and well-worn as the dusty cassettes the band uncovered on their travels around the globe.

verniers
94

this is absolutely insane, and so therefore, i absolutely love it.

fave tracks: blue mamba; tarmac 23; esoterica of abyssinia; space prophet dogon; the flower; cafe batik; papa legba; the vinegar stroke; burial in the sky

pishubishu
70

this is the 1,300th album i have listened to

personae
76

what a tormentuous grind! some parts to this are mind-warpingly scary, and i conjure up the images to pans labyrinth! imagine that beast singing. that is what you have here

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Added on: October 28, 2015