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LOS LOBOS - The Town And The City
| Popmatters | | I got this CD a few months ago, and was astounded by how vital and fresh and deep it was. Hadn’t Los Lobos turned into a boring jamband about 10 years ago? So this summer was largely a re-examination of this band, which I once loved more than maybe I should have. After all, How Will the Wolf Survive? was prime “let’s get drunk” music in college, my wife and I fell in love to the La Bamba soundtrack, and I’ve been known to crank up our graphics department’s copy of Kiko at work to get a project done. But what have I been missing by ignoring them since then?...full text |
| | Los Angeles Times | | While politicians and protesters were busy marching and making speeches on immigration in recent months, East L.A.'s acclaimed Chicano rockers were in a recording studio quietly preparing their own statement on the subject. The result is this outstanding new album, due in stores today. It's a subtle, suggestive and at times ambiguous look at an issue often drawn in trite extremes of pro and con, black and white....full text |
| | CokeMachineGlow | | As an institution, Los Lobos is uniquely American; however, the band suffers because of it. The music that the band has been making for more than 30 years is a fusion of Mexican principles, all-American rock drive, and some thoroughly experimental impulses. It’s not easily definable: too Americanized for Latinos; too foreign for the heartland; too normal for the indie kids; consequently, it lacks much of an audience....full text |
| | The Independent | | he always-reliable Los Lobos are on good form again with The Town And The City, another album of remarkable musical diversity and emotional depth, with a loose thematic concept yoking the tracks together, one concerning the frustrations and dreams afflicting struggling Mexican farmers. "The Valley" sets the scene with what lyricist Louie Perez describes as "almost a creation myth", an account of agrarian fulfilment set to a slow, deep drumbeat and an atmospheric patina of guitar noises; dissatisfaction sets in with "Hold On", where a life of "blood on the rag/and only dust in the bag" is depicted over an earthy, cyclical groove; and the country-rocker "Road To Gila Bend" finds the restless farmer heading north through Arizona to a new life that turns out to be just as tough as the one he left behind....full text |
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