Califone - Roots & Crowns
Califone has been making experimental American folk music for a while. And it shows in their newest album. “Roots & Crowns,” if taken apart, depicts many varying musical thoughts – from hand claps to static. Yet, it is not easily taken apart. This is in part due to the mesmerizing cohesion of musical phrasings created by such ideas; but more so it is where the album brings you. For Califone has managed to create something few artist are able to… “Roots & Crowns” is at one time both a movingly playful and somber album.
This album might have been written for a drunken night of dark bar blues. It could be meant for the dejected. And it may be for the melancholic sitting in their parked cars during a nighttime downpour. However, it is most appropriately their’s, if in the rain drops they find a calming dance, a hopeful beat, or the safe warm memories of love.
Of course, the image presented may seem unabashedly romantic. It is. Still, Califone’s ability to take us there, in a non-cheesy or overstated manner, makes “Roots & Crowns” a phenomenal album. That, and the beautifully reassuring instrumentation, the stylistic risks, the subtle mood setting, the understated tinkering of sounds, and the heavy, whispery voice of Tim Rutilli pacing along with it all.
Come to think of it, “Roots and Crowns” could have easily been written for sunny warm day convertible rides. It could be meant for the hopeful. And it may be for the lively watching a dandelion blow away in the breeze, as they observe both the beauty of it floating away and recall how proud it had looked standing atop its stalk.
Califone’s newest album is great because it captures possibilities. The music heard here could just as easily be referred to as disquieting as reassuring. It is as melancholy as it is hopeful. It is romantic, nostalgic, and sad. But it is never overstated. It is never cheesy.
Grade: A
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Good music man!
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Micah, it would have been nice to hear some of Califone’s stuff. Perhaps if you can drop a link.
What you wrote ( way above the bot posts ) was like poetry or a contrast of conflicting ironies, if u don’t mind me saying so.
I suppose your wrote as you were listening to Califone and perhaps words don’t properly give resonance to what you were hearing.
But in any case, drop a link in here for us, so that we can hear it too.
Big T, ze Poker guy.
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Agreed, very impressive post, but it would be great to have a link.
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