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Seventh release for the indie experimental rock band led by Tim Rutili
Recorded in Arizona, California, and Texas
Album download coupon included
"The combination of loose fun and pinpoint accuracy here is bracing, and Califone's sheer originality is a great counterpoint to the many acts trying desperately to live up to the legacy of their formers." — Paste magazine
Stitches, the new album from Califone, touches on all permutable definitions of the word, its episodes of discomfort and healing rendered with exquisite beauty and craftsmanship. Archetypes and mythological figures rub shoulders with bruised civilians throughout this odyssey. Intimate timbres — garage sale drum machines, slack guitar strings, hushed vocals — offset the album's cinematic inclinations. The listener moves through a landscape of Old Testament blood and guts, spaghetti Western deserts and Southwestern horizons, zeroing in on emotions and images that cannot be glanced over. Motes of dust dance briefly in afternoon sunlight.
"This is the only record I've made in my life where none of the work was done in Chicago," says Califone's Tim Rutili. The writing and recording began in Southern California, then continued in Arizona and Texas. "Those dry landscapes and beaches and hills and shopping malls all made it into the music," he acknowledges. Uniquely homespun elements are interwoven into the songs, too, including sounds Rutili recorded in his backyard during rainfall and while driving in his car.
Brass, pedal steel, and strings color in the edges and outline songs like "Frosted Tips," "We Are A Payphone," "Moonbath.brainsalt.a.holy.fool" and "Moses," yet Stitches is no Ennio Morricone-meets-Cecil B. DeMille pastiche. Gritty electronics, the mesmerizing thrumming of tablas, and eerie keyboards also pepper these ten new selections. A cartographer could spend lifetimes mapping the terrain of Stitches.
Track Listing
Side 1
Movie Music Kills a Kiss
Stitches
Frosted Tips
Magdalene
Bells Break Arms
Side 2
moonbath.brainsalt.a.holy.fool
Moses
A Thin Skin of Bullfight Dust
We are a Payphone
turtle eggs/an optimist
Recorded in Arizona, California, and Texas
Album download coupon included
"The combination of loose fun and pinpoint accuracy here is bracing, and Califone's sheer originality is a great counterpoint to the many acts trying desperately to live up to the legacy of their formers." — Paste magazine
Stitches, the new album from Califone, touches on all permutable definitions of the word, its episodes of discomfort and healing rendered with exquisite beauty and craftsmanship. Archetypes and mythological figures rub shoulders with bruised civilians throughout this odyssey. Intimate timbres — garage sale drum machines, slack guitar strings, hushed vocals — offset the album's cinematic inclinations. The listener moves through a landscape of Old Testament blood and guts, spaghetti Western deserts and Southwestern horizons, zeroing in on emotions and images that cannot be glanced over. Motes of dust dance briefly in afternoon sunlight.
"This is the only record I've made in my life where none of the work was done in Chicago," says Califone's Tim Rutili. The writing and recording began in Southern California, then continued in Arizona and Texas. "Those dry landscapes and beaches and hills and shopping malls all made it into the music," he acknowledges. Uniquely homespun elements are interwoven into the songs, too, including sounds Rutili recorded in his backyard during rainfall and while driving in his car.
Brass, pedal steel, and strings color in the edges and outline songs like "Frosted Tips," "We Are A Payphone," "Moonbath.brainsalt.a.holy.fool" and "Moses," yet Stitches is no Ennio Morricone-meets-Cecil B. DeMille pastiche. Gritty electronics, the mesmerizing thrumming of tablas, and eerie keyboards also pepper these ten new selections. A cartographer could spend lifetimes mapping the terrain of Stitches.
Track Listing
Side 1
Movie Music Kills a Kiss
Stitches
Frosted Tips
Magdalene
Bells Break Arms
Side 2
moonbath.brainsalt.a.holy.fool
Moses
A Thin Skin of Bullfight Dust
We are a Payphone
turtle eggs/an optimist
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