Calexico: “Splitter” from Algiers (Anti-, 9/11/12)
Going on four years without a proper album, Arizona-based Calexico returned in 2012 with swarms of strings, horns, shakers, and brush-stroked drumbeats that set the scene of desert-dry, Southwestern lamentations. The band achieves that and more on “Splitter” with a descending melody that’s simple but beautiful.
Pretty cool list of songs for 2012.