Califone – Stitches [LP]

Vinyl LP pressing. 2013 album from the Chicago-based Experimental Alt-Rock band. Stitches touches on all permutable definitions of the word, it’s episodes of discomfort and healing rendered with exquisite beauty and craftsmanship. Archetypes and mythological figures rub shoulders with bruised civilians throughout this odyssey. Intimate timbres garage sale drum machines, slack guitar strings, hushed vocals offset the album’s cinematic inclinations. The listener moves through a landscape of Old Testament blood and guts, spaghetti Western deserts and Southwestern horizons, zeroing in on emotions and images that cannot be glanced over.

Tracklist:

1. Movie Music Kills a Kiss
2. Stitches
3. Frosted Tips
4. Magdalene
5. Bells Break Arms
6. Moonbath. Brainsalt. A. Holy. Fool
7. Moses
8. A Thin Skin of Bullfight Dust
9. We Are a Payphone 1
10. Turtle Eggs / An Optimist