Maybe you hear it directly, maybe you don’t. But there’s a spirit that sits in between the notes on Algiers, a spirit that guided the record, some decades-old essence of a converted Baptist church ...

It is a common occurrence for artists with long careers to try and change their surroundings in order to give themselves new stimuli, and therefore reignite the muse - Paul Simon did it with his trip ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For their seventh studio album Calexico have transplanted their US/Mexico border-rock to New Orleans. Named ...

This is not always the case, however. Some bands manage to evoke an ambience without all of the technical wizardry we so frequently encounter in studio albums. Calexico's latest album, "Algiers," is a ...

“And Tucson is very much in parallel with that.” Perhaps that is why, despite the songs being written and the basic tracks recorded in New Orleans, Algiers retains signature Calexico sound and lyrical ...

The Tucson, Az.-based ensemble Calexico is known for making music that evokes its name, borrowed from a dusty California border town of less than 40,000 inhabitants; sweeping sonic landscapes that ...

Calexico’s new album, Algiers, is reviewed in the current issue of Uncut (October 2012, Take 185) – so we thought we’d take a trip back to April 2003 (Take 71), when Uncut’s John Mulvey flew out to ...

The story of this album is the story of one song. Sustained exposure to Joey Burns and John Convertino's seventh studio long-player drives you to their back catalogue, vaulting multiple genres – fado, ...

The desert rockers soak up some New Orleans spirit, with refreshing results... The seventh album from Joey Burns’ and John Convertino’s border band takes its title not from the Algerian capital, but ...