Artist: Calexico
Record Review from web archive December 26, 2008
Calexico
Many folks, often with a sigh of relief, considered Carried To Dust a return to form for Calexico after 2006′s Garden Ruin. Certainly the signals are there: cover art by Victor Gastellum, recording at Wavelab Studios, production by Calexico with a Craig Schumacher assist. Aesthetically, the subtle effect of rustic textures and open spaces on [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #62 Mar-Apr 2006
Calexico – Come together
I am part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro’ Gleams that untravell’d world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. –Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Ulysses” “It’s not like we’re abandoning any one influence; we still play a variety of songs,” says Calexico co-leader Joey Burns [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #61 Jan-Feb 2006
Iron & Wine / Calexico – Moore Theater (Seattle, WA)
Though it was only an EP, the Iron & Wine/Calexico disc In The Reins was one of the year’s most anticipated and intriguing releases — one that, impressively, lived up to the hype. The artistic grounds for collaboration were ideal: Iron & Wine leader Sam Beam is an uncommonly engaging singer and songwriter whose mostly [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #59 Sept-Oct 2005
Iron & Wine and Calexico – In The Reins
It hasn’t taken Sam Beam very long to overhaul his guy-at-home-with-guitar persona. If you’d heard The Creek Drank the Cradle, Iron & Wine’s spare, lo-fi debut, in 2002, it would have been rather difficult to imagine this musical evolution. Creek was a quiet, unassuming acoustic affair focused squarely on Beam’s vivid and engaging storytelling. Yet [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #51 May-June 2004
Calexico – Convict Pool
After the expansive 2003 album Feast Of Wire and an impressive presence on Neko Case’s Blacklisted the year before that, Calexico apparently decided this was no time to rest. It’s a good thing, too; although the Convict Pool EP features just six songs and clocks in at just over 20 minutes, it roils with enough [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #12 Nov-Dec 1997
Calexico / Richard Buckner – Cicero’s (St. Louis, MO)
Joey Burns crouches over his hollowbody Harmony at the corner of the stage, delay cranked to eerie; behind him, John Convertino stirs and dabs at his kit. Burns and Convertino’s resumes have circulated widely enough: Giant Sand, Friends Of Dean Martinez, Vic Chesnutt, Lisa Germano…they must wonder when Calexico will be taken seriously on its [...]
Town and Country - Shorter Artist Feature from Issue #9 May-June 1997
Calexico – In the desert, no one can hear you dream
Joshua trees silently pass the window, the sun’s glare stealing their color. Distant mountains glisten in the tear-filled eyes of Claudette Colbert. Her smartly bobbed hair bounces lightly against the headrest as the train pulls to a stop. She walks alone in tailored linen through the Tucson station bustling with trade and homecoming. A waiting [...]
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