Calla's unlikely mix of Slowcore and Garage Rock comes into it's own in the atmospheric peak of Televise, continuing a tradition that started in the 80's with The Dream Syndicate,
and providing music for a new generation of punks, whose interest is
not in destroying the establishment, but rather camouflage themselves
and blend with the flickering environment around them. Get it here (updated link).
One of the best kept secrets of Calexico's discography, this collaboration between them and the Amor Belhom Duo finds them at their most eerie, fatalist and mystical, with several short Ambient-Chamber tracks which give new guise to their cursed desert auras, and approach the abstract requiems of the Boxhead Ensemble
("La Valse Des 24 Heures", "En Route To The Blanchisserie", "Orange
Trees In The Yard"). Funnily, the nadir is the pointless doodling of
what one would expect to be the centerpiece (the 14-minute "The
Wrestler's Masque"), while the zenith is the 11-minute pointillism of
"Le Savon Se Dissout Dans La Rigole" (despite an awkward and irrelevant
coda). Get it here (updated link).
