Clear and present validation of the Calexico aesthetic as Sonoran signpost arrives by way of the group's third album, Hot Rail . Committed appears to have been consigned to a shallow grave in the desert by film critics, its soundtrack disc can be proudly retained in your Calexico collection.
Music is necessarily of the imagination, and musicians are both soothsayers and mythmakers.
A generation or two ago, people's impressions of the American desert were formed by Western films and cowboy novels. Calexico, it seems, is the architect for this and the next generation's mental travelogues. All rights reserved.