"It’s so jolting to find that their new album ‘Long Leaf Pine (no smack gum)’ leads off with the bloody New Orleans history lesson "Marie Laveau" and quickly segues into a border tale of mass decapitation called "Corrido Twelve Heads in a Bag" … with its leap from a traditional conjunto intro to a lilting cumbia groove that evokes the surreal brilliance of Los Lobos’ ‘Kiko and the Lavender Moon.’"