Well it’s been two years since Calexico’s Garden Ruin and they’ll be releasing their new album, Carried to Dust, on September 9th.
Here’s the description from the band:
Carried to Dust is, at least partially, the story of a writer in Los Angeles around the time of the writers’ strike we had a while back in late 2007. Our hopper heads out east on a whim and a dry Santa Ana tail wind. Stopping at the Yucca Valley swap meet he buys an old road map with a route already marked with red pen. It leads him to a cabin and from the cabin to a chain of other small town thrift stores, picking up old copies of National Geographic magazines along the way. Stories about snow drops in Moscow, leaning houses in Valparaiso, abandoned neighborhoods in New Orleans, and a manmade lake full of cell phone trees creep their way into his notes. He finds further inpiración at old roadside diners, bending an ear to each waitress and the local news over badly brewed coffee. The break proves to be enlightening. He falls in love with the newly found space and being carried along spontaneity’s spark.
Um…okay. I’m not sure where “Two Silver Trees” fits in the story, but it’s a solid tune.
Website | MySpace | Touch and Go Records
{ 0 comments… add one now }
Leave a Comment