Calexico, Spoke - 44m 47s - Music Database

Tracks & Durations

1. Low Expectations	2:36
2. Mind The Gap	0:52
3. Mazurra	1:46
4. Sanchez	3:18
5. Haul	1:21
6. Slag	2:28
7. Paper Route	2:00
8. Glimpse	2:39
9. Navy Cut	0:29
10. Spokes	3:37
11. Scout	2:09
12. Point Vicente	3:56
13. Wash	2:35
14. Ice Cream Jeep	0:30
15. Windjammer	2:38
16. Mazurka	1:19
17. Removed	3:51
18. Hitch	2:53
19. Stinging Nettle	3:40

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Review

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

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Spoke

Tracks: 19, Disk length: 44m 47s

Spoke

Tracks: 19, Disk length: 46m 2s (+1m 15s)

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