Califone - Roots & Crowns [LP]

Thrill Jockey

£32.40

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: THRILL163LP
Barcode: 0790377016314
Release Date: 22 Jul 2022
Genre: Folk/Americana

 Available on vinyl for the first time in 10 years, with new cover design by the band’s Tim Rutilli.
 LP format includes digital download card.
 “Uniting where you come from - your roots - with what you strive to be or what you reinvent yourself to become - crowns,” explains Tim Rutili. “At the bottom of these songs are the memories and images you sift through in the process.”
 Califone are Tim Rutilli (Loftus, Dirty Three, Red Red Meat), Ben Massarella (Loftus, Modest Mouse, Red Red Meat), Joe Adamik (Orso, Iron & Wine) and Jim Becker (Iron & Wine, Bitchin Bajas, Orso).
 “Califone have always been stupidly underappreciated, and the further we stumble into the 21st Century, the more this music starts to feel both familiar and necessary: ‘Roots & Crowns’ is
bluesy and soulful without reverting to revivalist schtick, and experimental without relying on blind cut-and-pasting. It is old and new, dirty and clean, alienating and accessible, sweet and ugly, organic and industrial, doting and vicious. It is one of the most quintessentially American records imaginable.” - Pitchfork

Tracklisting
Pink and Sour
Spider’s House
Sunday Noises
The Eye You Lost in the Crusades
A Chinese Actor
Alice Crawley
The Orchids (Psychic TV)
Burned by the Christians
Black Metal Valentine
Rose-Petal-Ear
3 Legged Animals