| Grotto of Miracles | |
| Type: | album |
| Artist: | Sun City Girls |
| Cover: | Sun City Girls - Grotto of Miracles.jpg |
| Studio: | Radical Recording, Tempe, AZ |
| Genre: | Experimental rock, psychedelic rock |
| Length: | 42:40 |
| Label: | Placebo PLA-19[1] |
| Prev Title: | Sun City Girls |
| Prev Year: | 1984 |
| Next Title: | Horse Cock Phepner |
| Next Year: | 1987 |
Grotto of Miracles is the second studio album by American experimental rock band Sun City Girls.[2] [3] It was released in 1986 by Placebo Records.[4] Like many Sun City Girls LPs, Grotto of Miracles has become a collector's item.[5]
Trouser Press wrote: "With demented lyrical concepts and such offbeat accessories as antelope bells, chimes and temple blocks, Grotto of Miracles is an ethnic stew that shows enormous creative growth."[4] The Chicago Reader wrote that the band's "wiggy instrumentals were flavored by surf rock, jazz, and noise, and would give way to pummeling art rock, nonsensical rants, and meandering improvisation."[6] Perfect Sound Forever praised the "beautiful, Rick [Bishop]-heavy, unusually near-accessible first side."[7] Maximum Rocknroll called the album "very musical, poetic, downright pretty, distinctively ugly, the great acid experience or background music."[8]
Adapted from the Grotto of Miracles liner notes.[9]