Calexico – Spoke (Vinyl) Format:Vinyl LP artful and surprising… Jeremy Coubrough’s

artful and surprising… Jeremy Coubrough’s keyboard parts channel the sparky energy of The Modern Lovers’ Jerry Harrison… and an air of unhinged desperation informs Williams’ vocals and guitar on many songs

Keep Walkin’  features several choice A-sides that were never included on albums and were overlooked for one reason or another

The album debuted at number two on the U

B4 Mars Needs Guitars

Available on gold vinyl

Calexico – Spoke (Vinyl) Format:Vinyl LP artful and surprising… Jeremy Coubrough’sWhen Calexico originally recorded this in 1996 they were calling themselves "Spoke." Recorded when Burns and Convertinos collaboration was a Giant Sand side project in the truest sense of the word, this 19 song disc finds the groups core members offering raw, understated songs as they work to find a sound distinct from Howe Gelb. They do not wander long. All the later templates are here: the acoustic border ballad (Point Vicente, Sanchez), the open