Release date: 2006-05-13
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Garden Ruin
Quarterstick
INDIE
- For this new recording, the band brought in producer JD FOSTER (MARC
RIBOT) and relocated from Tucson to Bisbee, Arizona. Inspired by their surroundings,
the band explored musical avenues that they had previously left untouched.
- The band has always admitted influences as diverse as Portuguese fado,
50's jazz, gypsy or Romany music, 60's surf and twang, the spaghetti western
epics of ENNIO MORRICONE and dark indie rock singer songwriters like SMOG,
WILL OLDHAM and VIC CHESNUTT.
- There is no doubt 'Garden Ruin' seems a more accessible album than
their previous. Where the open blue skies of the landscapes they chronicled
before were normally tempered by the smoky dark blues of their jazz influences,
'Garden Ruin' is musically brighter, though this time the skies are tempered
by a darker lyrical.
- Lyrically, too, the album sees Burns taking a left turn, addressing
contemporary America rather than the mythical America that always previously
inspired him. Stories of the little man are now set alongside far more personal
insights into Burns' worldview.
- Put succinctly, 'Garden Ruin' is where CALEXICO fill those dusty,
empty landscapes they documented with a big, big sound...
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$33.95 |
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