Feast of Wire

2.5

Dit album begint met een rustig nummer met het bekenden Amerikaanse accent. Dat is niet mijn smaak, dus ik bereid mij voor.

Het volgende nummer biedt een hele andere, maar ook rustige zang. Fijn dat er variatie is. Er wordt wat blaaswerk bij gehaald en het versnelde ritme breekt wel fijn met de rustige zang.

Maar dan komt de klapper van het album. Black heart is een triphopnummer met een wat minder dominante beat.

Het album heeft op zich het beste al wel gehad. Los van elkaar gezien, zijn de volgende nummers prima, maar vergeetbaar.

In zijn totaal biedt het album een continue kwaliteit met veel afwisselingen. Met name door Black heart, zou ik het met een vergeetbare 3 te kort doen.

Better than I expected - songs are better than the album cover, don’t worry.

Ja, war okay, aber auch nichts was herausgestochen hat, wo ich dachte, okay das muss auf jeden Fall in die 1001 besten Alben.
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this was an awesome album. This is a perfect mix of latin music and indie rock.

Enjoyed this. Light but not fluffly.

Great indie album. Extremely varied tracks, but still a unique cohesive sound.

This sucks. Writing anything more will just piss me off entirely.

I expected some generic early-2000s indie from the cover, but this ended up being pretty middle-of-the-road. Mixing pedal steel, mariachi horns, and spaghetti western vibes sounds cool on paper, and tracks like "Black Heart" have some nice textures, but the whole thing just lands as overly polished and competent at best.

Ok. Not a fan of the last bit of this album, but the first part had a few good songs. 2.5/5

I have never heard of these guys, but they are good. An interesting take on the indie scene with some Latin influences and style thrown in. I think if it was a hair more upbeat it might have gotten full marks from me.

It wasn't bad, just that I didn't quite resonate with it at first listen. Maybe I will come back to it and I will like it more in the future, but nonetheless it is interesting.

Great instrumental songs mixed with ok lyrics songs.

Laid back rock from the high desert, Calexico has a ecclectic relation to genre, incorporating accordian waltzes, mariachi choruses, atmospheric post-rock psychadelia, jazz drumming and horns, emo melodies, dub melodica, trip hop ambience, some cumbia rhythms, folksy alt-country acoustic and high-lonesome slide guitars to create a sound that encapsulates the borderlands. It coheres perflectly into a spacious cinematic album that winds its way slowly around, settling into the songs gently, quickening the pulse with new instrumental layers, and calming back down with its whispered lullaby vocals. Without being a concept album, it takes you on a journey, like driving through the sprawling outskirts of South Western city, cruising through the strip malls feeling a saturday afternoon evolve into saturday night evolve, catching snippets of what's playing out the car windows, the weddings and bbqs and parties, the bars filling up and spilling out - there's a bit of filler in the in-between moments, but they're taking you to the next place.

7/10

It's been a while since I gave a 5 and I really like this music. Not going to look up why the bands name and cover is terrible just going to be in a good mood today.

This album is far too hot and cold for me to really get into it. Its got a lot of neat moments that I quite enjoy, but its bogged down by instrumental tracks that not only pad out the run time, but bog down the theming of the album by dragging it into genres it really has little business attempting, even if said attempts are inoffensive. It does have stuff to enjoy, however, as I'd say some of the vocal tracks are pretty enough, and put a different enough spin on the alt-country tone for it to stand out in a crowd. It just feels very self-indulgent, as if at no point no one told the band "no." I could see another project by this band being better, but as it stands this one is an extremely mixed bag of good and "Eh? Eh..." to just be alright on a good day, with a tad nudge upwards for the originality.

What the fuck did I just listen to? That was unexpectedly really good. The album cover does not do it justice.

Ugh I love aughts indie so much! I somehow never listened to these guys but they're fantastic. I really enjoy when indie bands infuse a bit of alt-country into their sound like this. I will definitely have to listen to them more.

I didn't know what to expect going into this one. Was pleasantly surprised. It was good, and I'll listen to it again.