The Black Light (20th Anniversary Edition)
Calexico
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US$18.99
- Release Date 23 November 2018
- In Stock
- Code
- SLANG50166CD
- Format
- Double CD Album
- Label
- City Slang
An album about crossing physical and metaphorical borders that has never been timelier: Calexico’s classic album “The Black Light“ turns 20 this year. This limited celebratory anniversary edition includes all new artwork by Victor Gastelum, extensive linernotes, and 11 bonus tracks.
What was surprising about The Black Light (and what set its architects apart from their indie rock peers) was the album’s unusual willingness to wade into the rapids of American and Mexican culture, fully immersing itself midstream. From the outset, with ‘Gypsy’s Curse’, the record combines guitar twang and flamenco flourishes; and by its end, almost an hour later, it’s contrived a skillful and instinctive union of smoky bar room jazz, arthouse indie rock, and compelling mariachi brass in ‘Frontera’. If Calexico falls short as a name, it’s only in the fact that - alongside their mining of Mexico’s fertile musical past - Joey Burns and John Convertino weren’t just digging into California’s songbook...they were unearthing America’s too.
Tracklist | ||
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CD1 | ||
1 | Gypsy's Curse | |
2 | Fake Fur | |
3 | The Ride Pt.2 | |
4 | Where Water Flows | |
5 | The Black Light | |
6 | Sideshow | |
7 | Chach | |
8 | Missing | |
9 | Minas De Cobre (For Better Metal) | |
10 | Over Your Shoulder | |
11 | Vinegaroon | |
12 | Trigger | |
13 | Sprawl | |
14 | Stray | |
15 | Old Man Waltz | |
16 | Bloodflow | |
17 | Frontera |
Tracklist | ||
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CD2 | ||
1 | El Morro | |
2 | Man Goes Where Water Flows | |
3 | Glowing Heart Of The World | |
4 | Too Much Sprawl | |
5 | Rollbar | |
6 | Minas De Cobre (Extend-omix) | |
7 | Minas De Cobre (Spatial Mix) | |
8 | Minas De Cobre (Acoustic Mix) | |
9 | Lacquer | |
10 | Drape | |
11 | Bag Of Death |
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