Grotto of Miracles is the second studio album by the American experimental rock band Sun City Girls. It was released in 1986 by Placebo Records. Like many of the band's LPs, Grotto of Miracles has since become a collector's item.
Critical reception
Trouser Press wrote: "With demented lyrical concepts and such offbeat accessories as antelope bells, chimes and temple blocks, Grotto of Miracles is an ethnic stew that shows enormous creative growth." The Chicago Reader wrote that the band's "wiggy instrumentals were flavored by surf rock, jazz, and noise, and would give way to pummeling art rock, nonsensical rants, and meandering improvisation." Perfect Sound Forever praised the "beautiful, Rick [Bishop]-heavy, unusually near-accessible first side." Maximum Rocknroll called the album "very musical, poetic, downright pretty, distinctively ugly, the great acid experience or background music."
Track listing
Personnel Adapted from the Grotto of Miracles liner notes.
Sun City Girls Alan Bishop – bass guitar, melodica, autoharp, alto saxophone, trumpet, tape, percussion, vocals Richard Bishop – electric guitar, lap steel guitar, piano, keyboards, organ, melodica, cello, violin, flute, bells, percussion, vocals Charles Gocher – drums, percussion, temple block, bells, chimes, cymbal, gong, güiro, maracas, tambourine, autoharp, flute, horns, vocals
Production and additional personnel Tom Connell – engineering, mixing Joseph Cultice – photography David Oliphant – mixing Wade Olson – engineering Peggy Slinger – cover art Sun City Girls – mixing, design
Release history Region Date Label Format Catalog United States 1986 Placebo LP PLA-19
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