Califone - Villagers - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Roots and Crowns. InchUniting where you come from - your roots - with what you strive to be or what you reinvent yourself to become - crowns,Inch explains Califone's Tim Rutili. InchAt the bottom of these songs are the memories and images you sift through in the process.Inch Imagery of rebirth comes up often on this CD. Limitations, obstructions, darkness, and the new possibilities they illuminate is what ROOTS AND CROWNS is all about. Album Tracks 1. Pink & Sour 2. Spiders House 3. Sunday Noises 4. The Eye You Lost in the Crusades 5. A Chinese Actor 6. Our Kitten Sees Ghosts 7. Alice Crawley 8. The Orchids 9. Burned By the Christians 10. Black Metal Valentine 11. Rose Petal Ear 12. 3Legged Animals 13. If You Would

Califone's debut album 'Roomsound' - Originally self released in April of 2001. 'Roomsound' covers the same rustic, slightly ramshackle back forty that Tim Rutili has been ploughing through since his previous band Red Red Meat. Only this time the tilled bedrock unveils the most vividly colored, luring crop of songs Rutili has ever harvested. The sleepy, country-blues picking and autumnal backwoods melodies are accented with striking splashes of electronic tone color, obsolete keyboards and off-kilter percussion. Lyrically, 'Roomsound' penetrates the breath of pirates, poison apples at a tango contest and the waiting room between death and canonization where missionaries have quit and 19th-century prostitutes have been rescued for all the wrong reasons. Masterfully produced by Brian Deck, the album is vaulted far beyond the sum of it's parts. Album Tracks 1. Trout Silk 2. Bottles & Bones (Shade and Sympathy) 3. Fisherman's Wife 4. Poro Starlet Vs. Rodeo Clown 5. Tayzee Nub 6. Slow RT. Hand 7. St. Augustine (A Belly Full of Swans) 8. Wade in the Water 9. Rattlesnakes Smell Like Split Cucumber 10. New Black Tooth 11. Mittens (4-Track Version) (Bonus Track) 12. Stanza VIII (Bonus Track) 13. Cluck Old Hen (Bonus Track) 14. Wade in the Water (4-Track Version) (Bonus Track) 15. Silver & Gold (Bonus Track)

Darling Arithmetic is the third album from Villagers' Conor O' Brien. His 2010 debut Becoming A Jackal and {Awayland} his 2013 - both Mercury Prize-nominated, while the latter won Ireland's Choice Prize - were detailed, multi-faceted affairs, so Darling Arithmetic is a brave and committed new step forward. Album Tracks 1. Courage 2. Everything I Am Is Yours 3. Dawning on Me 4. Hot Scary Summer 5. The Soul Serene 6. Darling Arithmetic 7. Little Bigot 8. No One to Blame 9. So Naïve 10. Death Trap Kid 11. Dawning on Me (Crouch Angeles Version)