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| n/a by www.amazon.com |
Amazon.com
Sometimes the worst thing you can do is be very consistently great with your art. Calexico's failure to rise beyond cult status can perhaps be attributed to the fact that their albums... |
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| n/a by www.avclub.com |
While traditional country music contains traces of the "western" sound, a lot of alt-country shares an affinity with the southwestern. Veteran Arizona indie-rock act Calexico is a quintessenti... |
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| n/a by Pitchfork Media |
After nearly a decade spent playing together as Calexico, and with personal recording histories stretching as far back as 1988, Calexico's two principles are seasoned musicians who by now could ju... |
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| n/a by BBC |
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| n/a by observer.guardian.co.uk |
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| n/a by arts.guardian.co.uk |
Letter to Bowie Knife - Calexico at their most rocking - roars unexpectedly from the speakers, but most of Garden Ruin relies on simple, direct strum.These are the kind of songs that gnaw their way in... |
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| n/a by www.nowtoronto.com |
The contributions that the Calexico rhythm section of Joey Burns and John Convertino have made to their musician acquaintances are well documented, but it's been harder to see what affect those co... |
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| n/a by www.spin.com |
That we don't live in Shangri-La should come at no surprise. Still, Calexico won't let you forget it. With Garden Ruin, this Tuscon-based twosome celebrate their decade-long partnership by pen... |
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| n/a by www.slantmagazine.com |
hat has separated Calexico from so many soundalike alt-country bands over the course of their decade-long career is their commitment to challenging the very idea of genre labels, crafting a signature ... |
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| n/a by www.lostatsea.net |
Calexico is dead. Long live Calexico! Or should we now call them Calexicash? To be fair, Garden Ruin could hardly be classified as a sell-out album, but it certainly is popular minded, if not flat out... |
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| n/a by www.adequacy.net |
Calexico�s superb 2003 album, Feast of Wire, seemingly found the band hitting the zenith of a broad and ambitious musical mission. Its blend of adroitly arranged instrumentals and literate storytelli... |
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| n/a by www.prefixmag.com |
There's something about the music being pumped out of the Southwest. Maybe it's in the water, the vast open skies or the fact that people can actually afford to be creative in cities that don&... |
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| n/a by www.shakingthrough.net |
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| n/a by www.stylusmagazine.com |
alexico has been a band of setting, their Southwestern sound developing as a unique voice that takes on both political and personal concerns. With Garden Ruin, the group begins to leave that context b... |
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| n/a by www.cokemachineglow.net |
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| n/a by Popmatters |
When you hear a record like Garden Ruin, you realize something has to be done.
Not about Calexico. About us, the listeners. We have to do what’s necessary—listen to The Black Light 30 ti... |
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| n/a by Billboard |
Calexico's work is a long, dry desert and "Garden Ruin" is its oasis. For 10 years, the band has recorded lonely, ambling Southwestern rock tunes. This new set fills in the spaces with swe... |
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| n/a by www.austinchronicle.com |
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| 7 by Aftonbladet |
Bland murgrönelindade mickstativ och framför en backdrop som ständigt skiftar färg och motiv står Joey Burns tillsammans med Sam Beam och framför “Red Dust” från Calexicos och Iron & ... |
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| 7 by Dagensskiva.com |
Bland murgrönelindade mickstativ och framför en backdrop som ständigt skiftar färg och motiv står Joey Burns tillsammans med Sam Beam och framför “Red Dust” från Calexicos och Iron & ... |
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| n/a by SVD |
Amerikanska Calexico är ett sympatiskt band. Hemmahörande i Tucson, Arizona, har de, med en fot i Mexico, skapat musik som på flera plan rört sig över gränserna.Som så många på den amerikanska lo-fi-s... |
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