CALEXICO announce 9th studio album ‘The Thread That Keeps Us’ out Jan 26 on City Slang.
With less polish and more grit than ever before, ‘The Thread That Keeps Us’ both honors enduring traditions and reveals Calexico’s supreme confidence in songwriting.
Calexico have announced details of their ninth studio album with a new single and accompanying lyric video, as well as European tour dates for March 2018. The ninth studio album from Calexico, ‘The Thread That Keeps Us’ is due out on January 26th through City Slang and provides a timely snapshot of the Arizona-bred band: a family portrait capturing their stylistic variety and unpredictability while still finding solace in limitless creativity. In bringing the album to life, vocalist/guitarist Joey Burns and drummer John Convertino found a spiritual home in unusual surroundings—not in Arizona, but on the Northern California coast in a home-turned-studio called the Panoramic House. Built from debris and shipyard-salvaged timber—and dubbed “The Phantom Ship” by the band—the grandiose house and its edge-of-the-world-like ambience soon made their way into the songs. The specter of California also had a powerful effect: as both dream state and nightmare, its infinite duality is mirrored in the music, giving Calexico a new direction and new edge. With less polish and more grit than ever before, ‘The Thread That Keeps Us’ both honors enduring traditions and reveals Calexico’s supreme confidence in songwriting, ultimately setting a whole new standard for the band. As heard on the album’s lead single and opening track, the drama of the landscape directly impacted the making of ‘The Thread That Keeps Us’. Driven by sing-song melody and galloping rhythms, “End of the World with You”discovers an unlikely romanticism in volatile times. With its lyrics illuminating “Love in the age of the extremes,” the track is the perfect intro to an album that endlessly explores the contrast between bright and dark, hope and fear. “End Of The World With You” lyric video: https://youtu.be/TU1lFU__2fI Embed code: <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TU1lFU__2fI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Working with their longtime engineer Craig Schumacher, Calexico co-produced ‘The Thread That Keeps Us’, gathering musicians from across the globe to dream up an earthy yet expansive sound spiked with jagged guitar tones and flashes of distortion. “There’s a little more chaos and noise in the mix than what we’ve done in the past,”Burns points out. Although that chaos has much to do with “where we’re at right now as a planet,” it also echoes Calexico’s dedication to constant experimentation. “Whenever we’re writing and we come up with something that feels too familiar, someone will end up saying, ‘That feels good, but let’s keep going and see what else we can uncover,’” Burns says. “It’s been really important to the arc of this band’s evolution for us to always keep on trying new things.” Like “End of the World with You,” much of ‘The Thread That Keeps Us’ captures the anxieties and unease of living in tumultuous times. But while the album draws a kinetic energy from all that uncertainty, its lyrics unfold with a literary nuance and sense of setting and character. “Instead of writing straight-up protest songs, I want to tell stories,” Burns says. Largely inspired by his wanderings around Northern California during the album’s production, the narratives embedded in the record reflect on displacement, transitory existence, and—in Burns’s words—“returning to your home after being gone for some time and seeing how things have changed, and maybe not in the best way.” Calexico are Joey Burns, John Convertino, Martin Wenk, Jacob Valenzuela, Sergio Mendoza, Jairo Zavala Ruiz, and Scott Colberg.
Pre-order 'The Thread That Keeps Us' here: https://calexico.lnk.to/TheThreadThatKeepsUs Calexico 2018 live dates: Mar 09 Hamburg, DE @ Grosse Freiheit Mar 10 Berlin, DE @ Tempodrom Mar 11 Munich, DE @ Muffathalle Mar 13 Rome, IT @ Auditorium Parco Della Musica Mar 14 Milan, IT @ Alcatraz Milano Mar 16 Bologna, IT @ Estragon Mar 17 Fribourg, CH @ Fri-Son Mar 18 Zurich, CH @ X-Tra Mar 19 Linz, AT @ Posthof Mar 21 Stuttgart, DE @ Im Wizemann Mar 22 Lyon, FR @ Epicerie Moderne Mar 23 Cologne, DE @ E-Werk Mar 24 Antwerp, BE @ De Roma Mar 25 Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso Mar 27 Paris, FR @ Elysee Montmartre Mar 28 Bristol, UK @ Trinity Centre Mar 29 London, UK @ O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire ‘The Thread That Keeps Us’ track list: 01. End of the World With You (Lyric video) 02. Voices in the Field 03. Bridge to Nowhere 04. Spinball 05. Under the Wheels 06. The Town & Miss Lorraine 07. Flores y Tamales 08. Another Space 09. Unconditional Waltz 10. Girl in the Forrest 11. Eyes Wide Awake 12. Dead in the Water 13. Shortboard 14. Thrown to the Wild 15. Music Box Links: www.casadecalexico.com www.facebook.com/calexico twitter.com/casadecalexico www.instagram.com/casadecalexico
For more information please contact kate@stereosanctity.co.uk / t. +44 7812 607 230.
October 18, 2017 6:34am ET by Stereo Sanctity
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