The Black Light (20th Anniversary Edition – Clear Vinyl)

Calexico

SKU: SLANG50166LT

Barcode: 4250506830434

23.00 £23.00
  • Genre: Americana / Country
  • Label: City Slang
  • Released Date: 23rd November 2018
  • Buying Format:
    180g 2LP Coloured Vinyl Includes Download Code Includes 7"

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An album about crossing physical and metaphorical borders that has never been timelier: Calexico’s classic album “The Black Light“ turns 20 this year. This limited celebratory anniversary edition includes all new artwork by Victor Gastelum, extensive linernotes, and 11 bonus tracks.

What was surprising about The Black Light (and what set its architects apart from their indie rock peers) was the album’s unusual willingness to wade into the rapids of American and Mexican culture, fully immersing itself midstream. From the outset, with ‘Gypsy’s Curse’, the record combines guitar twang and flamenco flourishes; and by its end, almost an hour later, it’s contrived a skillful and instinctive union of smoky bar room jazz, arthouse indie rock, and compelling mariachi brass in ‘Frontera’. If Calexico falls short as a name, it’s only in the fact that – alongside their mining of Mexico’s fertile musical past – Joey Burns and John Convertino weren’t just digging into California’s songbook…they were unearthing America’s too.

– Anniversary-Edition on 180g heavy double vinyl including 11 bonus tracks
– Limited Clear Double LP on 180g heavy vinyl
– New Alternative Artwork by Victor Gastelum
– Gatefold Cover with embossed logo and silver print and 8 page booklet
– Limited to one pressing only

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Track Listings

A1. Gypsy's Curse
A2. Fake Fur
A3. The Ride Pt.2
A4. Where Water Flows
A5. The Black Light
A6. Sideshow
A7. Chach
A8. Missing
B1. Minas De Cobre (For Better Metal)
B2. Over Your Shoulder
B3. Vinegaroon
B4. Trigger
B5. Sprawl
B6. Stray
B7. Old Man Waltz
B8. Bloodflow
B9. Frontera

Bonus Vinyl Side
C1. El Morro
C2. Man Goes Where Water Flows
C3. Glowing Heart Of The World
C4. Too Much Sprawl
C5. Rollbar
D1. Minas De Cobre (Extend-omix)
D2. Minas De Cobre (Spatial Mix)
D3. Minas De Cobre (Acoustic Mix)
D4. Lacquer
D5. Drape
D6. Bag Of Death

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