FU MANCHU
California Crossing (Mammoth)
Reviewed by Jason Thornberry

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My friend, Scott, recently left the superb Costa Mesa pop merchants Smile to play drums for this band of perpetual Spicolli's. Stoner-Rock kinda came and went, and this is probably why. Nothing about this album held my attention for one second - not that it's badly played at all. It's just so drab and uninspiring. The drummer here, Brant Bjork, is now supposedly in Queens Of The Stone Age, and probably kicking himself in the nuts daily for wasting so much time with these dorks. Oh, and their infatuation with all things late-70's is getting old rather expeditiously. California Crossing is a lot like a person who laughs loudly at their own jokes, alone.

GRADE: D+.

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