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Villager

    Part experimental indie and part '70s soft rock, Califone's first record in three years finds creative force Tim Rutili reaching new levels of harmony, fragility, and confidence

    Whether detailing aging goths retaining their identity through year- long spooky decorations ("Halloween"), an imagined conversation with an inbred monarch ("Habsburg Jaw"), or the conflicts between identity and technology ("Ox- Eye"), Villagers' nine tracks spread out and luxuriates in the messy darkness of modern life.

    Like sitting in awe on the porch swing at the end of the world, Califone's latest marvels at the edge of the universe spreading into the darkness of infinity. With 25 years of Califone in his catalog (not to mention a variety of other projects, including alt rock heroes Red Red Meat), the Chicago- born, Los Angeles- based knows well how to find that moment of awe and bliss even as things are falling apart.

    Part poet, part abstract painter, and always surrounded by a variety of hypertalented collaborators (here including longtime cohorts Ben Massarella, Michael Krassner, Rachel Blumberg, and Brian Deck, as well as the likes of Nora O'Connor and Finom's Macie Stewart), Rutili has always excelled at luring listeners through elusive lyrics, flashes of shadows and images coming together in disarming unity.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. The Habsburg Jaw
    2. Eyelash
    3. McMansions
    4. Villagers
    5. Comedy
    6. Ox-Eye
    7. Halloween
    8. Skunkish

    Califone

    Roots & Crowns

      Available on vinyl for the first time in 10 years, with new cover design by the band’s Tim Rutilli. “Uniting where you come from - your roots - with what you strive to be or what you reinvent yourself to become - crowns,” explains Tim Rutili. “At the bottom of these songs are the memories and images you sift through in the process.”

      TRACK LISTING

      Pink And Sour
      Spider’s House
      Sunday Noises
      The Eye You Lost In The
      Crusades
      A Chinese Actor
      Alice Crawley
      The Orchids (Psychic TV)
      Burned By The Christians
      Black Metal Valentine
      Rose-Petal-Ear
      3 Legged Animals

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      Echo Mine

        Echo Mine is Califone’s score to Robyn Mineko Williams’ dance. The movement and the music started together and grew together, like two clear entities. At times totally intertwined and at other times bouncing off one another, sort of like reflections. But, somehow, always connected and listening. Ben Massarella, Brian Deck and I worked in a way that felt like a return to home; Brian handling the engineering, electronics, drums and overall sound of the piece, Ben adding percussion, feel, essential textures and colors. I felt like my job was to hover over all of it like a moth. Find melody in everything. Leave openings for everyone to work at the top of their creativity. We made our album, Roomsound, in much the same way (almost 20 years ago). Three of us in the studio ‘ Be humans. Play together as much as possible. A good feel beats perfection every time. Add other musicians to add other voices and other colors, to do the things we can’t do.

        TRACK LISTING

        Romans
        Bandicoot
        Night Gallery
        Projector
        Howard St & The Beach Nov 1988 After 11
        Flawed Gtr
        Echo Mine
        Carlton Says: Find It. It’s Still There
        Snow Angel V1
        By The Time The Starlight Reaches Our Eyes
        Snow Angel V2

        ‘Stitches’, the new album from Califone, touches on all permutable definitions of the word - sewing together, loops, yarn, abdominal pain. 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 south western horizons, zeroing in on emotions and images that cannot be glanced over.

        TRACK LISTING

        Movie Music Kills A Kiss
        Stitches
        Frosted Tips
        Magdalene
        Bells Break Arms
        Moonbath.brainsalt.a.holy.fool
        Moses
        A Thin Skin Of Bullfight Dust
        We Are A Payphone
        Turtle Eggs / An Optimist

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        All My Friends Are Funeral Singers

          In an underground music landscape where 140 characters equals 'journalism' and lone MP3s propel bands to momentary internet stardom, bands are here today and gone tomorrow. Califone is a band that defies this blueprint. Their albums are full of layers and textures, offering endless depth, entire universes to lose yourself in – and beyond the thick spectrum of sound, they do something even more important: They write great songs. Califone is a band that will stand the test of time. The band is at the peak of its powers on "All My Friends Are Funeral Singers", its sixth song based album. The long-awaited follow-up to 2006's acclaimed "Roots And Crowns", the album is the strongest collection of songs in a career with no shortage of strength. The subtlety and detail of Califone's previous work is present here – the atmospheres are carefully nuanced, the percussion is both rattling and melodic, the melodies are rich and soulful, interspersed throughout softly strummed folk and electrified blues. "All My Friends Are Funeral Singers" is a dense collage of sounds, expertly formed into fully realized pop songs.


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