Calexico - Spoke
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Artist: CalexicoEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1997-08-12
Music Label: Quarter Stick
Soundtracks:
- Low Expectations
- Mind The Gap
- Mazurra
- Sanchez
- Haul
- Slag
- Paper Route
- Glimpse
- Navy Cut
- Spokes
- Scout
- Point Vicente
- Wash
- Ice Cream Jeep
- Windjammer
- Mazurka
- Romoved
- Hitch
- Stinging Nettle
Free Music Notes for Spoke
Free Music Review: It's really an experimental thing
Hit: 3 Stars
I had the good fortune of seeing Calexico live recently, and they put on quite a good show. I've been a casual fan for a while but bought this CD after the Iron & Wine collaboration, which is really good.
Here, they've put together a lot of found sounds, different ideas, and a hodgepodge of what they're into. The root is a southwest sound, but they really manage to go all over the board.
After listening to it a few times, it gives you the sense of a band in search of something, maybe its own sound, but they don't quite get there on this album.
These guys are experienced and great songwriters, and put on a great live show, but I'm waiting for thier masterpiece, which is going to come one of these days.
Spoke Poster
As one might expect from former members of Giant Sand and Friends of Dean Martinez, this one is another sun-dried tomato. With vocals murmuring just below hearing level and guitars pushing and shoving between a lonesome, distant twang and a sleepy strum as on "Sanchez," the music feels like a soundtrack from a hippie western where the hero survives banishment in the desert by eating peyote buttons. Like the Dean Martinez hombres, Calexico draws upon a choice array of exotic instrumentation (accordion, mandolin, violin, vibes), but the heart of the record is closer to a low-key Meat Puppets hootenanny, the primary combination of guitar and snare drum providing the colors as well as the frame on gentle beauties like "Glimpse" and "Spokes." A well-placed occasional rocker, like the surf-fired "Scout" or the bar mitzvah delight "Mazurka," shake things up nicely, but for the most part, you won't stray too far from the futon. Then again, why should you? --John ChandlerAlternative Rock Music CDs
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