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City Slang

Calexico

Feast Of Wire (City Slang Classics)

The stellar 2002 album that saw Calexico move into a minefield entirely of their own.

It got them tagged the "Tex-Mex Radiohead" and sold in the hundreds of thousands. It contains songs as dramatically different as "Sunken Waltz" alongside the dark, bleak crescendo of "Black Heart".

PRESS: Quotes from original release:

“Seductive, stirring songs about crushed hope and the corruption of beauty and some of their most ambitious arrangements...” – Mojo

“an intoxicatingly vivid evocation of the mythology of the American west and its Hispanic heritage” – Uncut

“Feast of Wire is a startlingly diverse album” – Stylus Magazine

“It's some indication of Feast of Wire's accomplished evocation of Arizona's old weirdness that it makes you want to go to Tucson.” – Q

“In the hands of a lesser band, all the different sounds Calexico explores on Feast of Wire could result in a mish-mash of an album, but fortunately for them and their fans, it's one of their most accomplished and exciting efforts.” – All Music Guide

Tracklist

• 1. Sunken Waltz
  2. Quattro
  3. Stucco
  4. Black Heart
  5. Pepita
  6. Not Even Stevie Nicks...
  7. Close Behind
  8. Woven Birds
  9. The Book And The Canal
  10. Attack! El Robot! Attack!
  11. Across The Wire
  12. Dub Latina
  13. Güero Canelo
  14. Whipping The Horse's Eye
  15. Crumble
  16. No Doze