Angel Corpus Christi DIVINE HEALER (Gulcher 415)

Angel Corpus Christi
DIVINE HEALER
(Gulcher 415)

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For the past twenty years or so, singer-songwriter-accordionist Angel Corpus Christi has been producing her unique sad-funny avant-pop sounds in San Francisco. Angel (a/k/a Andrea Ross) and collaborator-husband Rich Stim moved from Bloomington, Indiana, to S.F. in 1978, along with Rich's band MX-80 Sound.~~Angel has contributed lyrics to various MX-80 projects since the late 70s. And MX-80's Dave Mahoney shows up as drummer on Angel's new Gulcher album DIVINE HEALER. This is Angel's first full-length release since her sadly overlooked 1995 major-label disc, WHITE COURTESY PHONE (on Herb Alpert's Almo label).~~The core band of Angel (vocals, accordion, harmonica), Rich Stim (guitar, bass, piano), Dave Mahoney (drums), and George Earth (guitar, bass) is augmented by contributions from songwriter Don Ciccone, Dean Wareham (Galaxie 500 and Luna), bass player Nancy Kravitz, and behind the mixing board, Craig Leon (Ramones, Blondie, etc.), Mark Bingham (MX-80, Social Climbers, etc.), and Dave Nelson. A couple Angel faves are resurrected for all the ears who missed 'em the first time: "Pull Girl" is a tasty piece of mutant bubblegum, like Veronica Lodge fronting Suicide, and "Candy" is even sweeter. The Ross/Stim songwriting team also give us "You," "Rock & Roll Shoes," "Sadder," "Sleepwalker," and with help from Don Ciccone, "I'll Say Goodbye" and "She Said." Another MX-80 connection is made with a version of Bruce Anderson's "Clown Sex," proving this Angel don't need no lyrics to fly. Also covered are "Eve of Destruction" (P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri/Barry McGuire), "Hurdy Gurdy Man" (Donovan), "Home Sweet Home" (Motley Crue?!), "I Want Everything" (original by Angel collaborator Dean Wareham's band Luna), and "Brown Wheat" (Friedman and Recht/El Destroyo). DIVINE HEALER is tasty stuff for healing hearts and caved-in brains. You should listen.~~(Eddie Flowers, slippytown.com)