Garden Ruin
Latest from the Arizona band is its most straightforward and rock-rooted to date, as the duo economically blends jazz, country, American folk, and indie into concise, well-oiled pop songs.
While traditional country music contains traces of the "western" sound, a lot of alt-country shares an affinity with the southwestern. Veteran Arizona indie-rock act Calexico is a quintessential case in point, with its cinematic songs anchored in waltzes and marches—time signatures that leave open spaces for the band…
When a band starts out with an aesthetic as specific as Calexico's, sometimes expanding that sound means incorporating more pop elements into it.
When you hear a record like Garden Ruin, you realize something has to be done. Not about Calexico. About us, the listeners