Carried to Dust (Bonus Track Version)

Calexico\'s borderless blend of rock, country, and Tejano music ominously rolls across the Americas on *Carried to Dust*. This expansive album seamlessly slips from supple, Southwestern rocker \"Víctor Jara\'s Hands\"—a nod to the Chilean activist—to dusky, string-soaked laments like \"House of Valparaiso\" (warmed by the hushed harmonies of Iron & Wine\'s Sam Beam) and slinky, horn-powered waltzes on \"Inspiración.\" The duo then take a detour to Moscow for the woozy ballad \"Red Blooms\" before drifting into the ghostly, ambient mist of \"Contention City.\"