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Calexico

Spoke

Description: As one might expect from former members of Giant Sand and Friends of Dean Martinez, this one is another sun-dried tomato. With vocals murmuring just below hearing level and guitars pushing and shoving between a lonesome, distant twang and a sleepy strum as on "Sanchez," the music feels like a soundtrack from a hippie western where the hero survives banishment in the desert by eating peyote buttons. Like the Dean Martinez hombres, Calexico draws upon a choice array of exotic instrumentation (accordion, mandolin, violin, vibes), but the heart of the record is closer to a low-key Meat Puppets hootenanny, the primary combination of guitar and snare drum providing the colors as well as the frame on gentle beauties like "Glimpse" and "Spokes." A well-placed occasional rocker, like the surf-fired "Scout" or the bar mitzvah delight "Mazurka," shake things up nicely, but for the most part, you won't stray too far from the futon. Then again, why should you? --John Chandler

 
Tracklist of Spoke

Disc 1
1	Low Expectations	2:37
2	Mind The Gap	0:52
3	Mazurra	1:46
4	Sanchez	3:18
5	Haul	1:21
6	Slag	2:29
7	Paper Route	2:01
8	Glimpse	2:40
9	Navy Cut	0:29
10	Spokes	3:38
11	Scout	2:09
12	Point Vicente	3:56
13	Wash	2:35
14	Ice Cream Jeep	0:31
15	Windjammer	2:38
16	Mazurka	1:20
17	Removed	3:52
18	Hitch	2:53
19	Stinging Nettle	3:41

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