Calexico - Garden Ruin
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Artist: CalexicoEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-04-11
Music Label: Quarter Stick
Soundtracks:
- Cruel
- Yours and Mine
- Bisbee Blue
- Panic Open String
- Letter to Bowie Knife
- Roka
- Lucky Dime
- Smash
- Deep Down
- Nom De Plume
- All Systems Red
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Free Music Review: Supermarket Fluff
Hit: 1 Stars
What a let down. I first saw Calexico at the Aroma Cafe (RIP) in Tucson around 1998. Since that point I have seen and heard their music grow to unbelieveable heights without losing their southwestern unique style. Luckily we have four strong albums and a host of EP's to remember Calexico by, but it sounds like to band is about to break up. I come to this conclusion because most of the songs on this album are geared towards making big cash from Musak adding these generic pop pieces to the playlists you hear in the backround at the supermarket. Thankfully Howe Gelb and others are still making music geared for fans, not royalties from Musak. If this were an artist's first album, the quality of the songs could pass off as a starting point. However these songs are Calexico's, they have to know this album is trash.
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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 are such subtle Whitman Samplers of Tex-Mex-and-kitchen-sink tastefulness. Garden Ruin, the group's poppiest album to date, just might change their socio-economic standing for the better. It's produced by JD Foster, but none of the things you love about Calexico--the sun-baked guitar, smoky vocals, mariachi horns, woozy lyrics--have left. Those elements are just grafted to crispier, more carefully delineated harmonies and multi-tracked backing vocals higher in the mix. By the album's end, on the slow-burning anthem "All Systems Red," Joey Burns buzzes and howls with a force never shown before on album. It's what Sigur Ros might sound like if they came from Arizona, and it's truly excellent. --Mike McGonigalThis is a more accessible album than previous efforts. Where the open blue skies of the landscapes they chronicled before were tempered by the smoky dark blues of their jazz influences, "Garden Ruin" is musically brighter. Lyrically too, the album takes a left turn in which contemporary rather than mythical America is addressed. Put succinctly, "Garden Ruin" is where Calexico fill those dusty, empty landscapes they documented with a big, big sound.
Japanese pressing includes two exclusive bonus tracks, 'Deep Down' (Acoustic) and 'Nom De Plume (Alternate Version). The two bonus tracks are not the same that are featured on the European limited edition! Garden Ruin is where Calexico fill those dusty, empty landscapes they've long documented with a big, big sound. Taking full advantage of the rockin' Calexico live band, the record distils its multicultural roots, the input of a producer, new domestic arrangements, international affairs, broadening horizons, developing ambitions and changing scenery. It's not your average Calexico album, but then again, it never is with this band. P-Vine. 2006.
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