Calexico – Spoke (Vinyl) Format:Vinyl LP Released on July 17

Released on July 17

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

B4 Mars Needs Guitars

Nocturnal Projections are hard to pin down: bright

and unafraid

Calexico – Spoke (Vinyl) Format:Vinyl LP Released on July 17When 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