Sunlight Service Group - Los Tres Bandidos (2013) [Hi-Res]

Sunlight Service Group has a listing in genre of ‘heavy petal.’ After failing miserably to come up with some quip about Summer, sunlight, sonics and an even more flagrant abuse of alliteration to open the flood gates for gushing over SSG’s outstanding Los Tres Bandidos, that seemingly tossed off pun somehow encapsulates accordingly. It’s charming, disarming, enigmatic and not without a small trace of dead serious humor and wit that can be as razor sharp as it is oddball to the ‘non-Gypsys’ out there. Los Tres Bandidos is not only a stellar follow-up to Bowling With The Bloodied Head Of Barbara Streisand, but it also finds SSG seemingly doing more with less. If you’ve been bowling (and you really should), then you know SSG have an uncanny knack for lining up the pins their own way. And then knocking them down without fail…their own way. Folk, rock and pop (you can put a ‘psych’ before those if you want, but there’s far more going on here than just that) all get the twist on Los Tres Bandidos until their wrung into shapes that are still familiar when they stick out their hands, but have a new touch … possibly from a new finger or two. Which is surprising in one way since SSG is now leaner and more economical. Los Tres Bandidos takes the root...