Canada Loves Califone
Published November 2nd, 2006 in press |
| Montreal Gazette: It Started With Orchids - Califone’s new record Roots and Crowns is possibly the best of its eight-year career - a moving synthesis of warm, folky melodies, rhythmic flourishes and occasional ambient noise…Roots and Crowns breathes. It finds [Tim] Rutili getting comfortable with his disparate influences, bringing them together with unprecedented ease and making peace with his music…It’s a clear indication of where his head is at- in a good place. Roots and Crowns is a low-key record. Spearheaded by Rutili’s sense of purpose, it is at once solemn, intuitive and uplifting. “A lot of the time for us, making music is striving for the balance between…sounds that should be fighting each other. It’s also something that is comforting, like a little break from the world.” |
| The Toronto Star: Twangs, Scuffs, Snips, Bleeps - On Roots & Crowns, Califone again masters the trick of bridging musical styles and eras, creating its own idiosyncratic brand of folk and blues by fusing twangy acoustics with scratches, samples and synthetic bleeps. “We try not to think about what we do too much while we’re doing it,” [Tim] Rutili says. “A lot of it is just what we’re naturally attracted to, without trying to be logical about it. We’re trying to be as instinctual as possible.” |
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