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May 19, 2020 · Roots and Crowns. “Uniting where you come from – your roots -- with what you strive to be or what you reinvent yourself to become -- crowns,” explains Califone’s Tim Rutili.
Roots & Crowns is the sixth studio album by American indie rock band Califone. It was released on October 10, 2006, on Thrill Jockey. The LP version of the album contains different artwork. The song "The Orchids" is a cover of the Psychic TV song of the same name.
- Post-Rock , Folk , Experimental
Oct 10, 2006 · Roots & Crowns is the sound of a pawn shop coming to life after dark, an avant-folk symphony of creaky floorboards and short-circuiting gadgetry. But drowsy-voiced frontman Tim Rutili keeps his cool as everything around him goes bump in the night: On “Pink & Sour,” he unleashes a cavalcade of buzzing guitars and swirling synths over a ...
Oct 9, 2006 · Roots and Crowns is Califone's most sophisticated record to date, a natural-- if lighter-- extension of 2004's Heron King Blues, and a coherent aesthetic declaration (which is even more...
A virtual fun-house of found-sounds, noise passages, and brilliantly obscured folk music, Roots and Crowns erects an autumnal haze out of its influences, whatever they may be. Califone has worked, skillfully, with all of these styles and sounds before, but they’ve never left the table with a more realized, delicate treatment.
Oct 10, 2006 · Roots and Crowns by Califone released in 2006. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
The root of Roots & Crowns needs little unearthing. At its base “Pink & Sour” is as plain as a chugging blues chord progression; “Sunday Noises,” “The Eye You Lost in the Crusades,” “Our Kitten Sees Ghosts” — hell, half the tracks — grow out of repetitive (albeit elegant) acoustic lines; “Alice Crawley” is half a minute ...
