Calexico Spoke(1996)[FLAC]

1996 Spoke CD Quarterstick QS51CD


1 Low Expectations 2:36
2 Mind the Gap 0:52
3 Mazurra 1:46
4 Sanchez 3:18
5 Haul 1:21
6 Slag 2:28
7 Paper Route 2:00
8 Glimpse 2:39
9 Navy Cut 0:29
10 Spokes 3:37
11 Scout 2:09
12 Point Vicente 3:56
13 Wash 2:35
14 Ice Cream Jeep 0:30
15 Windjammer 2:38
16 Mazurka 1:19
17 Removed 3:51
18 Hitch 2:53
19 Stinging Nettle 3:40

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?

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