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CALEXICO - Garden Ruin
| Virgin | | Alt country's become a bit of a dirty phrase recently. The glut of ex-rock pretenders listening to a couple of Byrds records and deciding that it's time to ditch the wah-wah pedals, coupled with some serious over-exposure of the genre in the press, has seen the British public opting instead for the mainstream, declaring their hitherto unheard-of love for Johnny Cash ("yeah, I like Walk The Line, and, er...")....full text |
| | Whisperin & Hollerin | | Having excelled as purveyors of some of the most inspiring Tex-Mex-flavoured Americana ever committed to disc over the past decade or so, the last thing you’d probably expect Tucson’s CALEXICO to do is make a ‘rock’ album, but with their seventh, the enigmatically-titled “Garden Ruin”, that’s in effect what they’ve gone ahead and done....full text |
| | Harp Magazine | | Calexico has always masterfully evoked spectacular desert landscapes with its glittering music, drawing primarily on Southwestern influences and inventive orchestrations for mood. But the Tucson, Ariz., band, led by Joey Burns and John Convertino, crafts indelible pop tunes, too, and Garden Ruin, the band’s proper full-length follow-up to 2003’s Feast of Wire, teems with irresistible melodies and zesty international flavor....full text |
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