Name: The Black Light (20th Anniversary Edition)
Brand: Calexico

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

SLANG50166CD

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Discs

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

The Double CD version comes in a 3-panel digipak with a 24-page booklet.

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2018-11-23

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

4250506830441

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2 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Calexico

Genre GB

Country / Americana

Label GB

City Slang

An album about crossing physical and metaphorical borders that has never been timelier: Calexico’s classic album The Black Light turns 20 this year. This limited celebratory anniversary edition includes all new artwork by Victor Gastelum, extensive liner notes, and 11 bonus tracks. What was surprising about The Black Light (and what set its architects apart from their indie rock peers) was the album’s unusual willingness to wade into the rapids of American and Mexican culture, fully immersing itself midstream. From the outset, with Gypsy’s Curse, the record combines guitar twang and flamenco flourishes; and by its end, almost an hour later, it’s contrived a skillful and instinctive union of smoky bar room jazz, arthouse indie rock, and compelling mariachi brass in Frontera. If Calexico falls short as a name, it’s only in the fact that - alongside their mining of Mexico’s fertile musical past - Joey Burns and John Convertino weren’t just digging into California’s songbook...they were unearthing America’s too.

2CD - The Double CD version comes in a 3-panel digipak with a 24-page booklet.

The Black Light (20th Anniversary Edition)

Music GB