At around 30 minutes in length, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282's 1993 recording The Funeral Pudding is really more of an EP, perhaps a stopgap between their masterful collection of esoterica Mother Of All Saints and the quirk-pop perfection of Strangers From The Universe. And for the Thinking Fellers it is an unusually subdued affair; the album is split between four proper tracks and five throwaway instrumentals recorded in their rehearsal space (aka the "Turk Street junkie squat", a point of reference for any mid-90's underground San Francisco musician). While many of their albums are laced with this "Feller filler", these primitively-recorded improvisational noodlings come off as uninspired. Despite the jaunty banjo-driven Waited Too Long Read More