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May 19, 2020 · Califone offers a sparse and beautiful cover of “Orchids” on Roots & Crowns. The line from the song, ‘In the morning after the night/ I fall in love with the light,’ became a theme for the new album.
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 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 of a...
Oct 11, 2006 · Roots & Crowns finds Califone further honing their “blues on the moon” sound, simplifying in some places, elaborating in others, and pushing their ragged playfulness to soaring heights. The album supposedly takes its title from a quote in a Robertson Davies novel, yet the title also serves as something of an indirect description.
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 ...
In the case of Roots & Crowns, we have a resounding ode to hereditary, cultural integration as contained within an exemplary how-to. And all Califone had to do was make the archetypal Califone album. It is one of the most quintessentially American records imaginable. The band's best collage of cross-bred eras yet.
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