The Black Light (2025 Reissue)

The Black Light (2025 Reissue)The perfect soundtrack for a summer roadtrip in an old car across Death Valley. Calexico's musical textures are woven out of a dazzling array of instruments and styles, including mariachi trumpets, countrified pedal steel, Latin jazz percussion, and carnival organ, just to name a few. The songs move at siesta speed, casually looping and loping along, never getting overheated. Bandmates Joey Burns and John Convertino have their hands in so many musical

Forever The Same (Instrumental version) - previously unreleased

amid the songs’ often fraught situations

C2 If It Wasn't For The Nights 5:13

yet remains wholly unfazed by the group's previous exploits and stands defiantly on its own

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4-2 Flyte (11) With Gene Clark & Chris Hillman– Still Feeling Blue

10 Raise the Roof

we're complicit in all of the systems that I really don't believe in

The uptempo ‘Can’t Give It Up’ is taken at a perfect dance beat for Northern Soul discos

which was recorded in a little house in Atlanta that had been converted into a studio called the Living Room

unpredictable approach to rhythm and composition had quickly made him one of Omar’s favourite artistic foils