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- Summary: The ninth full-length studio release for the Arizona-based rock band led by Joey Burns and John Convertino was recorded in California and was co-produced with Craig Schumacher.
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- Record Label: Epitaph
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Jan 17, 2018The intimacy and evocative atmosphere of previous releases has been retained, but there’s a fresh, barnstorming spirit brought by the team surrounding the core duo of Joey Burns and John Convertino: where earlier releases sometimes felt too meticulously crafted, this one has the sound of a proper band, its members constantly egging each other into uncertain territory.
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Q MagazineJan 17, 2018This is their strong set of songs in years. [Feb 2018, p.108]
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Jan 26, 2018By turns gentle and bold, traditional and boundary-pushing, The Thread That Keeps Us is another fine example of Calexico's ever-broadening horizons.
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Jan 26, 2018Calexico have made records that sound like this one before, but they’ve never made one with quite this much fight in it.
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Jan 26, 2018In The Thread That Keeps Us, Calexico have learned to let go a little, to let nature take over. The result is surprisingly comforting.
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Jan 29, 2018In the end, The Thread that Keeps Us is a good Calexico record, still it doesn’t have outstanding peaks. It flows gently down the stream, yet besides a few memorable moments (all of them coming from the band’s comfort zone) there’s nothing to go crazy about.
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Jan 22, 2018There are some truly enjoyable moments on Calexico's latest--but they're vastly overshadowed by at turns annoying or just boring tracks, bogged down in an overly long record.
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