- Record Label: Touch and Go
- Release Date: Oct 8, 2002
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The concept is brilliant and musically the Black Heart Procession have never sounded better.
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What it all comes down to is that the album is not only damn fun to listen to, but it has enough aura and vibe that you may want to make it your personal soundtrack for this summer.
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While Amore del Tropico blazes some new paths for Black Heart Procession, it also hits all the right notes from the group's past.
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Often more conceptually interesting than practically solid.
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The Black Heart Procession is a truly original band, and Amore Del Tropico is a large stride forward for them, a reminder and a promise of their potential.
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MojoIt's a little too long to sustain its fetid boudoir ambience; but that aside, this remains a deep red velvet swoon of an album. [Jan 2003, p.93]
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The album's tone and tunes and imagery and such are all still on the same haunted-house/boat-of-the-dead kinda kick they've kicked out on their three previous, numerically-titled jams.
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Taken as a concept, Black Heart's disc is -- ironically enough -- a lot of fun to listen to.
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Q MagazineAdmirably fresh, but perhaps too long. [December 2002, p.97]
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ResonanceDecidedly more up-tempo [and] noticeably more sardonic than previous efforts. [#36, p.58]
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A number of songs crumple under the weight of the album’s ambition.... Regardless, Amore del Tropico is a fine, fine record: a lively, lovely concept album that bridges the gap between Nick Cave and Calexico.
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UncutThis is Calexico on downers, Lee Hazlewood on jolly pills. [Dec 2002, p.131]