Califone - Roots & Crowns
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Artist: CalifoneEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-10-10
Music Label: Thrill Jockey
Soundtracks:
- Pink & Sour
- Spiders House
- Sunday Noises
- The Eye You Lost In The Crusades
- A Chinese Actor
- Our Kitten Sees Ghosts
- Alice Crawley
- The Orchids
- Burned By The Christians
- Black Metal Valentine
- Rose Petal Ear
- 3Legged Animals
- If You Would
Free Music Notes for Roots & Crowns
Free Music Review: Metal Burned Sees Ghosts Crusade Spider Sour
Hit: 5 Stars
This is one of those albums, which seem to defy classification and that in itself makes it something which should be in every music fan's collection. Taking ideas and genres from all corners of the music spectrum to make something, which is genuinely fascinating and satisfying to listen to. Beautifully crafted, down right quirky, it flutters from gentle folksie ambience to hypnotic grind in the blink of an eye. And it does it all effortlessly and without self-indulgence. Intelligent without being overbearing and pretentious, it's full of surprises and joy, even after the umpteenth listen.
At the same time they seem to take a child like delight in the noises they make, and that brings with it a freshness and clarity not often heard; intense, laid-back, ramshackle yet perfectly constructed, scratchy, funky, bluesy, whimsical, gossamer threaded events that scamper delightfully from gentle, almost casual tunes to whirling dervish steel cored grunt and back again, without even breaking into a sweat. Brilliant.
Roots & Crowns Poster
The fifth proper album by the Chicago-based roots-loving group is their slowest, weirdest, and best. Some of these hazy songs are pretty little pop jams, while others are more experimental things stitched together haphazardly, all the wires showing. If you want to hear a group that "pushes the envelope" while never forgoing the pleasure principle, Califone is exactly that. It's so nice to hear people who could so easily form a (really good) jam band forego such lucrative tendencies for more foreign, complex, and subtle pleasures. "Black Metal Valentine" and "A Chinese Actor" are stitched-together Tetsuo visions of bluesy, futuristic post-folk, like some magical collaboration between This Heat, the Rolling Stones, and Vetiver. The superbly-titled Roots and Crowns is a pleasure throughout, and stands easily among the year's best releases. --Mike McGonigalRoots and Crowns. "Uniting where you come from - your roots - with what you strive to be or what you reinvent yourself to become - crowns," explains Califone's Tim Rutili. "At the bottom of these songs are the memories and images you sift through in the process." Imagery of rebirth comes up often on this CD. Limitations, obstructions, darkness, and the new possibilities they illuminate is what "Roots And Crowns" is all about. The LP is limited to 1,000 copies and comes in a jacket hand-screened by Tim Rutili. Califone have toured with Wilco, Iron And Wine, Modest Mouse, The Shins, and The Sea And Cake, and were invited to the Sonic Youth-curated ATP.
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