AMG EXPERT REVIEW
Mr. Bungle - California (3 stars)

Some bands change musical styles from album to album or song to
song, Mr. Bungle change styles from second to second. It's not 
exactly a radio friendly approach, but you don't listen to Bungle for 
catchy pop songs, you listen to blow your presuppositions of what music
should sound like. On California, their first album in four years, the group 
continue their musical, lyrical and thematic experimentation, blending jazz, 
lounge, pop and avant-garde soundscapes on songs like the
wonderfully disjointed "Sweet Charity" and "The Air-Conditioned Nightmare." 
Believe it or not, California also widens the group's sound palate, adding 
Morrocan themes to tracks like "Ars Moriendi" and "Pink Cigarette."

-- Steve Kurutz, All-Music Guide